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Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?)
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:31:52 GMT
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Scott Edward Sanburn wrote:
> Troy Cefaratti wrote:
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> > NAFTA does only apply to the US, Canada and Mexico though...
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> > And it is fairly recent. Who knows what the situation was 30 years ago when
> > Lego was making these decisions.
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> I know, I was just trying to supplement tariffs and the like. I would have to
> look at the 50-60's taxes, import, etc. to see for sure, but it most cases, it
> is usually better for the company in question to have a US division, to get
> around all those tariffs and taxes. I assume this is one of the reasons for TLG
> (LG) to do this. I would also think of maybe some quality issues. I know I love
> paying them! :)
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> > Also, the US does still impose substantial import tariffs when it suits
> > them, up to 100% of the cost of the product. (Read this to mean when
> > someone has pissed them off or imposed high tarriffs on US exports)
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> Yes, that falls under the Politics 101 category. Many nations do this, whether
> its time of war, negotiations fail, etc. The US has some strange trade and
> tariffs practices as it is. such as embargo's on Cuban products, because Cuba is
> Communist, then we have open trade (Favored nation status) on countries like
> Communist China?! (Chi-Comm's) Go figure!
Like the recent decision on lamb imports. The thing there is:
The us lamb producers can vote in the comming election and the australian ones cant so the us ones
win out.
--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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