infant industry argument

基本解釋

The infant industry argument is a smoke screen.
新生工業(yè)論是一種障眼法。
Critics of free trade have reached for this “infant industry” argument ever since.
從那以后，批評(píng)自由貿(mào)易的人便用他的“工業(yè)初期”主張作為反駁武器。
In addition, as for the infant industry argument, the actual political pressures tend to produce tariff structures that do not in fact take advantage of any monopoly or monopsony positions.
除此之外，和新生工業(yè)論，實(shí)際的政治壓力傾向于產(chǎn)生一種合理的關(guān)稅結(jié)構(gòu)，這種結(jié)構(gòu)并不以任何一種壟斷地位作為優(yōu)勢(shì)前提。

When these mature industries are foreign, supporters of the infant industry argument call for tariffs, a tax on foreign goods, to force the foreign price above the already higher price of the infant domestic goods.
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The infant industry argument will complain that, in such cases, if the businesses involved were just given extra profits through tariffing their foreign competition, they could pay for the labor necessary to create the infrastructure that would allow them to compete naturally without the tariff.
FORBES: Do Tariffs Protect an Infant Industry?
The old argument that European governments used to justify them was that Airbus was an infant industry that needed support to prevent Boeing from having a global monopoly of civil jet airliners.
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