Trade Protection as an International Commodity: The Case of Steel
提出贸易保护应被视为一种商品，是钢铁生产的投入品，并梳理了过去一个世纪中保护商品市场的发展与钢铁市场历史的关系。
Trade protection commonly is viewed as a support—external and perhaps occasional—granted to an industry by government policymakers. Focusing on the steel industry, this study argues that protection is better viewed as a commodity, an input into the production of steel. The development of the market for the protection commodity during the past century is related to the history of regional, national, and international markets for steel.