protectionist pressure
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protectionist
adjective
uk/prəˈtek.ʃən.ɪst/us/prəˈtek.ʃən.ɪst/
relating to actions by a government to help its country's trade or industry by taxing goods bought from ...
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pressure
noun
uk/ˈpreʃ.ər/us/ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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We as a country are dangerously vulnerable toprotectionistpressureif such a satisfactory outcome of a new financial and trading system is not achieved.
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Although the open trading system has brought advantages, we have to recognise that recession has increasedprotectionistpressureand created some serious problems of adjustment.
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Underprotectionistpressure, it was soon deprived of the privilege of grinding in bond.
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On trade, we reaffirmed our commitment to an open multilateral trade system and our determination to resist protectionist pressures.
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It is of course essential that this process is not jeopardised by protectionist pressures.
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Of course, it is more than evident that protectionist pressures are growing.
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That is not to say that there are not protectionist pressures in other member states.
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An increased tendency for each country to pay greater heed to the protectionist pressures within its borders would have been the natural consequence.
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However, it will have to fall a certain amount to offset protectionist pressures.
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The most important point of all is the emphasis in the communiqué on the need to resist the protectionist pressures that are growing in the world.
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We recognised that the existence of these surpluses and efforts to dispose of them harm the economies of certain developing countries and aggravate the risk of wider protectionist pressures.
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Indeed, some countries have become increasingly critical of our maintaining the rebate, and it has, in fact, been used as an argument to justify protectionist pressures in some countries.
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Other persistent problems are large budgetary deficits and trade imbalances, protectionist pressures and the continuing difficulties of many developing countries and severe debt problems for some.
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Larger and more persistent movements, however, may lead to changes in the patterns of international trade which are unlikely to be sustainable, and to a dangerous build-up of protectionist pressures.
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Although, to date, there is no major evidence that concrete protectionist measures have increased, protectionist pressures seem to be mounting.
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Support for globalization is weakening in several regions of the world, which is unsurprising given that protectionist pressures tend to become stronger at times of economic and nancial stress.
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