The logic seems simple at first glance: if you want to protect your industry, raise tariffs.
Make foreign products more expensive and the domestic market will strengthen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that's the protectionist trap<\/strong> that so many governments fall \u2014 or choose to fall, driven by populism disguised as patriotism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tariffs are imposed as a shield, but they act as a barrier. Tariffs do not create competitiveness. \u201cWhere there are trade barriers, there are high prices, bad products and privileged monopolies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Brazil knows this. We pay more for clothes, electronics, tools, food \u2014 all in the name of protectionism that protects groups, not the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now, with the new wave of tariffs driven by Trump and echoed by other leaders, the world is returning to a model where trade stops being a bridge and becomes a wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tariffs are not development policies. Globalization has not made us weak. Apesar do discurso de prote\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 ind\u00fastria nacional, tarifas comerciais funcionam como barreiras que isolam o pa\u00eds, aumentam pre\u00e7os e premiam a inefici\u00eancia. Este artigo mostra como o protecionismo empobrece a popula\u00e7\u00e3o e refor\u00e7a o controle estatal sobre a economia.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow55rbCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[25,306,15,106,231,114,78,94,305],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politica-economica","tag-comercio-internacional","tag-critica-ao-isolacionismo","tag-economia-brasileira","tag-intervencao-estatal","tag-liberalismo-economico","tag-nascionalismo-economico","tag-protecionismo","tag-tarifas-comerciais","tag-trump-e-tarifas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Instead of protecting the economy, they isolate the country from competition, innovation and efficiency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
They hide inefficiency.
They punish the consumer to reward the sponsored producer.
They weaken exchanges and, therefore, impoverish everyone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
They are power strategies.
And like every instrument of state power, are costly to those who have no way of escaping: the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\ud83d\udce3 Final Call (CTA):<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Protectionism is what keeps us dependent on the brute force of the State.
Keep following the Power & Market<\/em> and understand why defending free trade is defending freedom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"