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"Infant industry" arguments were given great credence in Australia for decades.
"This is an infant industry.
Interesting idea, but infant industry is tricky.
Genomic scanning is an infant industry that promises great things.
Yet creating a niche infant industry of farms and mills would be an arduous process.
Still, the study notes that large scale commercial production of microalgae is still an "infant industry".
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The ideas of Friedrich List, a German economist who argued that tariffs boosted industrial development through the protection of infant industries, were gaining ground, particularly in the United States.
The W.T.O. has allowed developing countries to retain much higher trade barriers than industrialized countries, on the theory that they have infant industries that may not have grown big enough to withstand global competition.
The main aim of import substitution industrialization is to achieve economic self-sufficiency by protecting infant industries until they reach a technological level whence they can compete in international trade.
That's the trouble with infant industries; they keep getting too biggety for their britches.
Thirty years later, the infant industries have yet to grow up.
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