How to Use mercantilism in a Sentence

mercantilism

noun

• The short life span of the deal can be blamed in large part on national barriers — which are likely to rise even further as a new mercantilism emerges.
  — Steven Davidoff Solomon, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2017
• Its wild mercantilism put Genoa in contact with the world, endowing it with the wealth and architectural and artistic grandeur of a city like Venice, and the grit of a port city like Marseille.
  — Tamar Adler, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2017
• The world is now pushing back against Chinese mercantilism.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 31 Dec. 2020
• Some in the Trump administration see steel as part of a much bigger problem of Chinese mercantilism.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Countries through the years have used other means to keep foreign goods out and protect homegrown companies, a practice known as mercantilism.
  — Andrew Mayeda and Bryce Baschuk / Bloomberg, Time, 24 Mar. 2018
• His steel and aluminum tariffs punish friends who could forge an alliance against Chinese mercantilism.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 June 2018
• Why did the Bush administration do so little to fight back against Chinese mercantilism?
  — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 16 May 2017
• The failure to stop Chinese mercantilism severely damaged the U.S. workforce.
  — David Dayen, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2018
• The Trump administration is right to make Chinese mercantilism an issue, Mr. Cass says, but its response has been ineffectual.
  — Jason Willick, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2018
• Hume was no fan of slavery, mercantilism, or the apparatus of imperialism; Adam Smith, his compatriot, was more outspoken about these evils still.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• Part of Smith’s intellectual assault on mercantilism was to attack the power of special interests.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Mar. 2022
• The Economist was founded in opposition to tariffs and mercantilism.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• But mercantilism, the erroneous notion that exports are inherently good and imports always bad is not only alive and well in the general populace, but has a grip on the president of our nation and on his commerce secretary.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 3 June 2017
• Some analysts have described the nation’s evolving trade approach as mercantilism, a government effort to prop up exports and restrain imports in pursuit of trade and financial surpluses.
  — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2018
• The economy is on an upswing, propped up by debt but also, for now, defying conventional theories that mercantilism will sap China’s creative vigor.
  — Andrew Browne, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
• While trade theorists exhorted the US and its partners to practice free trade, China was cleaning America’s clock with an unapologetic strategy of mercantilism.
  — Rober Kuttner, Time, 30 Sep. 2019
• More ominously, China’s mercantilism is part of a larger Xi Jinping strategy to establish a new military and commercial hegemony in Asia.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• But no serious critic has offered any other strategy to counter four decades of systematic Chinese mercantilism and economic exploitation.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• After European mercantilism exploded into early forms of empire in the 16th century, the ensuing markets of enslavement and exploitation fostered a logic of racial hierarchy that persists into the present day.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
• The political significance of Mr. Xi’s economic mercantilism is harder to predict.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• The economic priorities branch out into two further categories: (1) reducing distortions to the global economy caused by Chinese mercantilism or (2) reducing the bilateral trade deficit.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• Economic relations need to consider China’s often predatory mercantilism, IP theft and cyber spying.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2021
• This dichotomy suggests that citizens of Western democracies face a choice between a globalist economic and political order—of which stakeholder advocacy is a part—and a retreat into mercantilism, nativism and cultural stasis.
  — Richard J. Shinder, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2020
• Economists have begun to rethink the effectiveness of the postwar trade regime, thanks to China’s blatant mercantilism, theft of intellectual property, distortive subsidies, and determination to displace Western industry.
  — Thomas J. Duesterberg, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2018
• In negotiations aimed at least in part at curtailing Chinese mercantilism, American representatives requested that China direct bilateral trade from on high.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• Certainly, Trump’s agenda of closing the border, using tariffs to overturn a half-century of Chinese mercantilism, and pulling back from optional overseas military interventions variously offends both Democrats and establishment Republicans.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• First, policymaking suffers as, instead of a coherent programme, America undergoes government by impulse—anger, nativism, mercantilism—beyond the reach of empirical argument.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018

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