Consumer boycott of foreign goods

In response to growing dependence on imported goods from countries with increasing economic power, consumers may personally or collectively reject the marketing of products from those countries. In the absence of governmental cessation of foreign imports, individual consumers ultimately control the demand for imported products. Consumer boycott may disrupt economic relationships between countries, leaving the government answerable to tensions in trade.

1. Consumer boycotts

1. Vulnerability of national economies to vagaries of external markets for goods and services
2. Unproductive import substitution

1. Import competition from low-wage countries
2. Imbalance in economic relationships among countries
3. Fear of new technology
4. Economic conflict
5. Deterioration of international terms of trade
6. Declining international competitiveness

1. Misrepresentation of information to consumers
2. Dependence on imported technology

1. Restrictive trade practices

1. Refusing foreign imports
2. Importing
3. Boycotting foreign goods
4. Boycotting

1. Refusal
2. Foreign
3. Boycott
4. Antipathy