Sumptuary laws may likewise be established with a design to promote a relative frugality: when a government, perceiving that foreign merchandise, being at too high a price, will require such an exportation of home manufactures as to deprive them of more advantages by the loss of the latter than they can receive from the possession of the former, they will forbid their being introduced.
Luxuari buruzko legeek izan dezakete urritasun erlatiboa ere xedetzat; estatu batek, ikusirik erbestetik merkantzia garestiegi batzuk ekartzeak bertako merkantzia ugari esportatzea eskatuko lukeela eta, premiak asetzeari begira, esportazioek sortuko luketen gabezia kaltegarriagoa litzatekeela inportazioek ekarriko luketen onura baino, erabat debekatzen ditu hauek;