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PROTECTIVE TARIFF Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

A law imposing duties on imports, with the purpose and the effect of discouraging the use of products of foreign origin, and consequently of stimulating the home production of the same or equivalent articles. R. E. Thompson, in Enc. Brit.

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