strategic trade policy argument for a tariff

Definition

Economics

  • In an example of

    strategic trade policy

    , the use of a tariff to extract

    monopoly

    profits from a foreign monopolist, or to shift profit from foreign to

    domestic

    competitors in an

    international

    oligopoly. The monopoly case seems to have originated with Katrak (1977), but the classic treatment of the larger issue is Brander and Spencer (1984).
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