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protective tariff

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Noun1.protective tariff - a tariff imposed to protect domestic firms from import competition
tariff, duty - a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries"
anti-dumping duty - a tariff imposed to prevent dumping


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You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
A protected industry goes to sleep, and monopoly, like the protective tariff, kills it outright.
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