strategic trade policy argument for a tariff
Definition
Economics
- In an example of
strategic trade policy
, the use of a tariff to extractmonopoly
profits from a foreign monopolist, or to shift profit from foreign todomestic
competitors in aninternational
oligopoly. The monopoly case seems to have originated with Katrak (1977), but the classic treatment of the larger issue is Brander and Spencer (1984).
