Question

“It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy…If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage."
According to this quote, what measures should a government take to protect industry from foreign competition?