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The 12 pages that link to Infant industry argument, each with the reason it gives.

• International tradeCompared with: It is a central justification for limiting trade to pursue long-term industrial development.

• Free tradeCompared with: It offers a common justification for restricting imports despite free-trade principles.

• Import substitution industrializationRelated: It supplies the central justification for shielding new domestic manufacturers from imports.

• MercantilismRelated: It preserves a rationale for selective protection after mercantilism’s broader doctrine lost influence.

• Comparative advantageCompared with: It challenges immediate specialization by arguing that future productivity may justify short-term protection.

• Economic nationalismRelated: It supplies a common developmental justification for protection, while raising questions about when support should end.

• Industrial policyRelated: This argument has long supplied a central rationale for industrial policy.

• ProtectionismRelated: It is a leading rationale for accepting short-term costs in pursuit of future productivity.

• Export-oriented industrializationRelated: It can justify protection within an export strategy while firms develop capabilities.

• Friedrich ListRelated: List’s tariff defense is an early and influential formulation of this argument.

• DevelopmentalismRelated: It supplies a rationale for shielding emerging industries while they develop.

• Ha-Joon ChangRelated: Chang uses its history to defend selective protection as a development tool.