During the past five years, a developing nation began a massive undertaking: teaching farmers how to successfully grow and harvest peanuts. The government subsidized the building of peanut processing plants, where private businesses are now producing peanut butter and other products of nutritional value. Although the government has not completely banned the importation of peanuts, it has placed limits on the number of peanut products that the nation can import each year in order to protect the country's young peanut industry. These limits are called Multiple Choice embargoes. subsidiaries. import quotas. countermeasures