The phrase "a foreign industry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an industry that is based in a different country or is not domestic to the speaker's country.
Example: "The government is considering policies to support a foreign industry that has been investing heavily in renewable energy."
Alternatives: "an overseas industry" or "a non-domestic industry".
Project America tried to help an American industry compete against a foreign industry.
This past summer, the Internet police in the provinces of Hebei and Shandong ordered three American companies to install the monitoring systems at local joint ventures, according to a spokesman for the Quality Brands Protection Committee, a foreign industry group representing more than 200 major corporations operating in China.
(Industry conferences are unique ecosystems aren't they? I remember walking by another industry conference that was a gathering of some arm of IT. I peered in at the gathering and observed them but comprehended little. They were speaking a foreign industry language, even their dress was of their industry. I'm sure they viewed our design conference with equally perplexed eyes).
And while there appears to exist a booming foreign industry for fake stem cell cures, the Forum participants all agreed that the wide-spread closing of foreign bureaus, and decline in foreign coverage, forces many newspapers to neglect such topics, instead limiting foreign reporting to wars and terrorism.
To boost quality, he brought in a raft of foreign industry executives as consultants and forged a $10 million joint venture with Yamaha in 1995.
For Mr. Campbell, who had a talent for luring foreign industry, the arrival of BMW meant thousands of new jobs and international cachet for a state once dismissed as a redneck backwater.
It's a difference that reflects the tax and investment policy of the Governor of Kaluga, Anatoly Artamonov, who has been doing his utmost to attract foreign industry, with a reasonable degree of success.
Those results suggest that foreign industry plaintiffs have a slightly higher success rate than U.S. industry plaintiffs, which may reflect the fact that agency discretion is more often exercised in a way that is adverse to the foreign interests.
The effort, while spottily executed, was alarming enough to spur one foreign industry association to lodge a complaint with the government.
As a nation we haven't achieved much since 1945, and the things that we are rightly proud of are being taken away from us by the distortions of a foreign entertainment industry".
But while the regime seems happy to allow a foreign tourism industry to operate and to grant visas to the occasional overseas student, journalists asking questions about the numbers held in prison camps or interviewing ordinary North Koreans is not an option.
