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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 MatchesProtectionismProtectionismNotion that governments should protect domestic industry from import competition by means of tariffs, quotas, and other trade barriers. 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. 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). Domestic content protectionDomestic content protectionUse of trade policies such as domestic content requirements to increase the portion of a product's value that is provided by domestic factors of production, either in direct production or through produced inputs. Home responsibilities protectionHome responsibilities protectionA scheme which preserves your rights to a basic state pension during periods when you are caring for children, an elderly relative or other dependants. Further SuggestionsMortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI)Protection protection applied Second-best argument for protection Contingent protection Building Societies Investor Protection Scheme Payment protection insurance Self-sufficiency argument for protection Protectionism Nominal rate of protection Foreign investment argument for protection Labor standards argument for protection Patriotism argument for protection Endogenous protection Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968 Tariff protection Externalities argument for protection Content protection Effective protection Call protection Fairness argument for protection Cultural argument for protection Downside Protection Securities Investor Protection Corporation Safeguards protection |
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