Protectionist

He was especially scathing in an aside apparently referring to trade in services, where Canada suggested a protectionist measure in response to a protectionist U.S. proposal.

Clark said she's been pushing the Biden administration to avoid protectionist policies that favour American jobs and goods, saying that approach will only make life more expensive and business more challenging.

I don't like his unholy alliance with the american automotive industry that means we no longer get kei cars and sacrificed American's access to reasonably sized vehicles in favor of protectionist economics.

Rudd further observed the U.S. political class was now dominated by an “overriding protectionist sentiment” but urged Congress to do more to open American markets to allies in Asia and Europe.

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is not intended to be “protectionist” and only meant to avoid the problem of ‘carbon leakage,’ said Frans Timmermans, European Union’s chief climate negotiator, in an interaction with reporters on Friday.

An openly protectionist measure, it raised duties as high as 49.5% — in some cases higher than even McKinley favored.

As Canadians wake up to news that Donald Trump will return to the White House, the President-elect's promise of protectionist policies is casting a spotlight on what effect his second term will have on Canada-U.

Beijing is grappling with some big problems: a troubled property sector, rising youth unemployment, weak European demand for its exports, and an increasingly protectionist US.

Chief executive Naomi Smith said: “The increasing threat from Russia to our east, coupled with the growing likelihood of a protectionist and Nato-sceptic US administration to our west, means Britain risks becoming economically and diplomatically adrift.

China is also urging countries at COP29 to refrain from protectionist measures that make it more expensive to cut emissions, it said in a climate action plan this week.

Even if these measures are temporary like in 2019, we let our economy be used as poker chips in Trump’s protectionist schemes.

For all the protectionist handwringing, you’d think policymakers would recognize that this buyout will save the company from eventual bankruptcy without the deal and might secure the jobs of U.S. workers.

From 1869 to 1900, the United States operated under a highly protectionist trade regime.

He has suggested that if re-elected, he would continue and possibly expand these protectionist measures to safeguard American jobs and industries.

However, the economy is likely to feel the impact of Trump 2.0’s trade protectionist measures since H2/2025.

In 1815 the British Government passed protectionist legislation which artificially inflated the price of corn.

Many US allies are concerned about Trump’s America First rhetoric and threats to pull out of NATO, not to mention his protectionist trade policies.

Over time, however, protectionist states begin to fall behind the rest of the world, which is presumably still engaging in international trade.

Simon Sutcliffe, customs and excise duty partner at business advisory firm Blick Rothenberg, said: “Not since the 1930s with the Smoot-Hawley Act has the US considered such a protectionist trade policy.

Through heavily protectionist measures, Trump is promising to restore millions of manufacturing jobs to the United States — the kinds of jobs that used to be largely unionised.