Button was responsible for the Button car plan, which reorganised the Australian car industry in an attempt to make it competitive without tariff protection.
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It raised the alarm in a draft report on tariff protection for Australia's textile, clothing and footwear industries, which employ about 96, 000 Australians.
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Completely removing the tariff protection currently enjoyed by farmers would definitely, cripple or even kill the industry in which over two million Filipino families depend,
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"Asking corn farmers to sacrifice the limited tariff protection they enjoy would be like asking them to willingly submit to their death, " he quipped.
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From the almost 4, 200 items China has announced so far for tariff reduction, none has retained such high tariff protection as China's car industry.
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Australia is a leading advocate for free trade in primary industries like farming and mining although it maintains more tariff protection for its manufacturing industries.
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Hanson's policies include reintroduction of tariff protection for agricultural industries and, until a recent backflip, the funding of low-interest loans to farmers by printing more money.
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In the six years ended March 1933 64, 300 cars were imported but only 7, 600 were given New Zealand made bodies and tariff protection ended.
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Indonesia sought prolonged tariff protection even while the AFTA Council supported the idea that products should not be shifted into categories that give them extra protection.
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Other sectors such as sugar, automobiles and petrochemicals have already asked the government for tariff protection, saying they need time to develop competitiveness to survive, Bautista said.
