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Pick up a newspaper, especially during a recession or other high unemployment times, and you will probably find at least one article a month about an industry complainig about "unfair" competition from foreign suppliers. If foreign brands were ....

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... by taxing its foreign competitors, ignoring the remainder of the economy, and then concluding that what is best for that small part of the economy must be good for the whole. It's a laughable logic. Import restrictions can take several forms. Typically, Congress will use tariffs and quotas to protect a domestic firms from foreign competition. Tariffs are a monetary tax on each unit of an imported commodity. Quotas are a numerical limit on the annual quantity of particular imports. A more subtle form of protectionism is the minimum quality standard. In the generally rare cases in which the market cannot regulate product quality on its ...