infant industry argument

基本解释

The infant industry argument is a smoke screen.
新生工业论是一种障眼法。
Critics of free trade have reached for this “infant industry” argument ever since.
从那以后，批评自由贸易的人便用他的“工业初期”主张作为反驳武器。
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，和新生工业论，实际的政治压力倾向于产生一种合理的关税结构，这种结构并不以任何一种垄断地位作为优势前提。

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.
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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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