Every country in the world supports protectionism. Lesser developed countries like South Korea (at one time anyway) successfully used protectionism to build their auto industry so that it can now compete on the global market (without protectionism it is highly unlikely that large upstart ventures like this can survive) and developed countries like America are promoting free trade in order to prevent foriegn competitors from developing their own industries that can compete with ours.
Politicians are trying to open up the economies of other countries while trying to protect their own, and this has led to some pretty crazy protectionist laws (non-tariff barriers) such as Germany's purity beer law to protect their beer industry. I guess what I'm trying to say is that even with the guise of free trade protectionism is alive and well in the global economy and to think otherwise is unrealistic.
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