When these mature industries are foreign, supporters of the infant industry argument call for tariffs, a tax on foreign goods, to force the foreign price above the already higher price of the infant domestic goods.

FORBES: Do Tariffs Protect an Infant Industry?

The infant industry argument will complain that, in such cases, if the businesses involved were just given extra profits through tariffing their foreign competition, they could pay for the labor necessary to create the infrastructure that would allow them to compete naturally without the tariff.

FORBES: Do Tariffs Protect an Infant Industry?

The old argument that European governments used to justify them was that Airbus was an infant industry that needed support to prevent Boeing from having a global monopoly of civil jet airliners.

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