Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:22:16 -0500 From: Jemmie Wang <jemmienopsamh.edu> Subject: Re: US import quotas??? [was: Who cares about "Volvo World Record"]
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------49218E2500D4DE06C22C74BD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The fact is the US is one of the freest economies in the world. I run a computer company with 20 employees and have first hand knowledge. There are reasons why merchandise in the US often cost less than the *same* merchandise in Europe or Japan, and that is because of low trade barriers, less regulations, and a free economy. Go talk with any economics professor worth his/her salt. Cigan-Dorman wrote: > Fact: America is the most trade protective nation in the world. > Fact: In 1997 we brought a German registered, European manufactured Saab to > the USA. > Luckily the car was registered in the name of my German wife. I as an > American had no fair chance of importing that car. > What I learned would make you sick. > Then consider the state emissions requirements and registration. > Talk about protection! > Your knowledge is effected by the propaganda you've been feed. > > meyer_bnopsamejanews.com wrote in message > <74p8tk$tje$1nopsam1.dejanews.com>... > >In article <74otka$i0$1nopsam.news.technocom.net>, > > "Adrian" <anorthnopsamhil.co.uk> wrote: > >> Let me get this right? An AMERICAN is complaining about protective trade > >> policies????????? > >> Get a life and look at your own 'free' market - British Quota taken by > >> Jaguar & Rolls Royce!!! > >> I bet VW Only gets a look in because they build the things across the > border > >> in Mexico, otherwise BMW & Merc would get all Germany's quota (And STILL > >> Have to not supply the market!). > >> Why do you think so many companies now build in the US? > > > >What??? I'm sorry, but the only quotas on auto imports to America are the > >"voluntary" ones the Japanese agreed to quite some time ago, and which have > >fallen into disuse. Import duties on cars in American are also the lowest > in > >the world (although imports on trucks are higher). > > > > Rover, Fiat, Peugeot and other European cars disapeared from the American > >market because what they sold here was junk, unable to compete even with > >domestic US cars, to say nothing of Japanese ones. America's auto market > is > >open to any company that cares to meet US standards, and those that do come > >from Japan, Sweden, Korea, England, Mexico, Canada, the UK, Germany, Italy > >and others. The UK and the EC, on the other hand, have exorbitant duties > on > >imported cars, which is the only way companies like Fiat, Rover and the > like > >can get away with selling the second rate vehicles they make. > > > >Companies build in the US because it's cheaper to make them here than it is > to > >make them in Germany/Japan and ship them. In case you haven't noticed, the > >European auto industry has the highest cost salary/benefits structure in > the > >world. > > > >Your knowledge of economics and trade are severly limited, my friend. > > > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own --------------49218E2500D4DE06C22C74BD Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="jemmie.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Jemmie Wang Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="jemmie.vcf" begin:vcard n:Wang;Jemmie x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:jemmienopsamh.edu fn:Jemmie Wang end:vcard --------------49218E2500D4DE06C22C74BD--
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