import protection
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2024 by Montek Singh Ahluwalia · across every show →
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Nov 9, 2024 negative
Ahluwalia: Protecting Domestic Imports Is Equivalent to Taxing Exports
“If you protect imports through whatever means, that's equivalent to taxing exports. Because if you wanted to generate the same reduction in imports, which your protection is doing, and you did it through an exchange rate change, exporters would have a boom.”