They had counted on the extra tariff protection to aid their sales of these vehicles.
Another point of division within the League was the question of free trade or tariff protection.
The aim of this trade rule is to prevent internal taxes or other regulations from being used as a substitute for tariff protection.
A phase out of tariff protections was continued and company tax was cut by 10% to 39%.
The next year the company asked for, and received, tariff protection.
The effort reduced tariff protection while at the same time giving companies incentives to specialize and begin exporting.
The industry also wants to keep its tariff protection.
It is often under special tariff protection or other government concessions.
It won tariff protections of up to 106 percent.
In the first place, there was the range of benefits at the government's disposal - subsidies, credit, large contracts, tariff protection.