Turkey began implementing planning programs to improve its industrial production using import substitution industrialization strategies.
Although agriculture kept the bulk of the labor force, the importance of manufacturing workers increased for import substitution industrialization.
Regional trade agreements for developing countries were aimed more at the creation of integrated markets for industrial products which would facilitate the success of import substitution industrialization policies than at the integration of their agri-food markets.
Import substitution industrialization was the dominant strategy, aimed at developing domestic industries via government policies.
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.
This approach is called Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI).
Commodity exports and foreign aid were seen as a means to the end of financing "import substitution industrialization".
After World War II most large Latin American countries chose import substitution industrialization (ISI) as their main economic development strategy.
Between 1962 and 1985, the Turkish economy developed under import substitution industrialization, with regulations based on domestic consumption growth strategies.
This kind of trade dominated import substitution industrialization (ISI) strategy was typical already in Italian city states.
