Country A currently imports solar panels at $30,000 each. The government is using only 10% of the program as domestic content, exporting clean energy to neighboring countries. Country B imports also solar panels at $25,000 each, but uses 70% of the program as domestic content. If both countries produced solar panels home, the costs would have reached $25,000 for country A and $20,000 for country B, but there would have been an initial shakedown period during which solar panels would cost $35,000 for country A to produce and $40,000 for country B to produce. Suppose each country must go through a shakedown period of high costs on its own, before accessing any financial support from abroad. Under what circumstances would the existence of the initial high costs justify infant industry protection?

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Country A currently imports solar panels at $30,000 each. The government is using only 10% of the program as domestic content, exporting clean energy to neighboring countries. Country B imports also solar panels at $25,000 each, but uses 70% of the program as domestic content. If both countries produced solar panels home, the costs would have reached $25,000 for country A and $20,000 for country B, but there would have been an initial shakedown period during which solar panels would cost $35,000 for country A to produce and $40,000 for country B to produce. Suppose each country must go through a shakedown period of high costs on its own, before accessing any financial support from abroad. Under what circumstances would the existence of the initial high costs justify infant industry protection?
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