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Marine Mammal Protection ActThe 1972 U.S. law prohibiting the "taking" (harassing, hunting, capturing, or killing) of marine mammals, and also prohibiting the import of any marine mammal product or any fish that has been associated with the taking of marine mammals. See tune-dolphin case.Similar MatchesEnvironmental protection argument for a trade interventionEnvironmental protection argument for a trade interventionThe view that trade should be restricted in order to help the environment. Examples include embargos on imports made from endangered species, limits on imports produced by methods harmful to the atmosphere, and restrictions on investment into locations with lax environmental standards. This is usually a second-best argument. Intellectual property protectionIntellectual property protectionLaws that establish and maintain ownership rights to intellectual property. The principal forms of IP protection are patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Mortgage protectionMortgage protectionTerm assurance to cover the repayment of a mortgage in the event of the death of the mortgagor during the period of the loan.In the case of a repayment mortgage the capital sum outstanding is gradually reduced over the term of the loan (albeit slowly during the initial years when the majority of the repayments are paying the interest) so that decreasing term assurance would be incorporated in the policy. For an endowment mortgage where the sum assured and the death benefit are at least equal to the amount of the loan throughout the term of the loan, level term assurance would be apt. Payment protection insurancePayment protection insuranceA type of insurance that pays your loan for you if you become unable to work for an extended period of time, as a result of redundancy, accident, sickness or disability. Most non-mortgage PPI products are taken out for a length of time that corresponds to the life of the loan it is protecting. Effective rate of protectionEffective rate of protectionA measure of the protection provided to an industry by the entire structure of tariffs, taking into account the effects of tariffs on inputs as well as on outputs. Letting bij be the share of input i in the value of output j, the ERP of industry j is ERPj = (tj-Sibijtij)/(1-Sibij). Due to Corden (1966). Further SuggestionsDomestic content protectionprotection applied Mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) court of protection Balance of payments argument for protection Call protection Protection Import protection Self-sufficiency argument for protection Domestic distortions argument for protection Labor standards argument for protection Externalities argument for protection Labor standards argument for protection Exchange rate protection Deposit Protection Scheme Employment argument for protection Cultural argument for protection home responsibilities protection Tariff protection National defense argument for protection Fairness argument for protection Patriotism argument for protection Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968 Downside Protection Protectionism |
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