protectionist

IPA: prʌtˈɛkʃʌnɪst

Someone who believes in protecting domestic producers by impeding or limiting the importation of foreign goods and services via actions taken by government.

Examples of "protectionist" in Sentences

Canada's government is seeking meetings with U.S. officials over what it calls protectionist provisions in the administration's jobs plan.
For the most part, its superiority is just assumed, and the word "protectionist" is treated like, say, "fascist": something just obviously, axiomatically bad and requiring no serious thought.
In its annual China Position Paper, the business association details what it describes as the protectionist hurdles still impeding foreign businesses almost a decade after China joined the World Trade Organization.
I'm really not going to argue this point with you because it makes me look ungrateful (which I am certainly not), but to take money from the government (AFTER YOUR SERIVCE IS DONE, not during!!!) and then criticize me for being a protectionist is the height of hypocricy!
OTTAWA—The Canadian government is demanding meetings with White House officials and congressional leaders, alarmed over what it calls "protectionist" provisions in the Obama administration's $447 billion job-creation plan that Ottawa says will disadvantage Canadian companies.