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Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?)
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Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:02:27 GMT
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I was always under the impression that a lot of European and other parts of the
world countries had very high tariffs as well. We have NAFTA (North American
Free trade Agreement) here that reduced a lot of the taxes, etc. between the US,
Mexico, and Canada. The disagreement, especially nowadays, is that US tariffs
are extremely low to most products/imports compared to the rest of the world.
The US is very dependent on imports, anything from video games to electronics to
Lego products to clothes, etc. A big player on this is China.
Going back to the issue, I am sure TLG saw it being in a better to position to
have a US firm initially do production, and see where it went. As we all know,
it was a hit! This also eliminates the taxes from importing products.
Scott Sanburn
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Scott E. Sanburn
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Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI
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| Scott Edward Sanburn <ssanburn@aeieng.com> wrote in message news:37BD9833.B2990C...eng.com... (...) of the (...) American (...) the US, (...) tariffs (...) world. (...) electronics to (...) NAFTA does only apply to the US, Canada and Mexico (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?)
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| (...) I'm wondering how accurate that explanation is. Doesn't the U.S. have particularly high import tariffs[1]? So is it possible that Lego would have been deemed shipping through U.S. import duties too expensive compared to making the Lego in the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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