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OK, someone recently asked me what Samsonite Lego is. LEGO, as we all know was founded in Denmark. By the mid 1950's, it was sold throughout the Scandanavian countries of Europe. In 1956 it started selling in West Germany, Europes largest market. By (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Wow! Thanks for the info. I hadn't ever heard of this! Ciao! (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in article <37BC1D46.5C36F5E5@u...ch.edu>... (...) For curiousity's sake, I live about a mile and a half from the building where the Canadian Samsonite Lego was distributed back then. (Stratford, ON) My mind (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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I didn't hear about this one? What happened? Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 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 (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The us imposed tarrifs on imports of australian lamb. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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The US has some strange trade and (...) Cuba is (...) like (...) I think that the main difference here is that China is a HUGE market that US Companies want to get into, whereas Cuba is not. And since big companies pay big money for lobbyists, they (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Not when the Chi-Comm's give you millions of dollars in campaign contributions for the election and nuclear missile technology! Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, I don't know. The Australian lamb producers could spend some of their money to buy votes/politicians just like other foreign groups do. (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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I'm sure there are a lot of nuances that went into this decision. The Danish company was only into its' 8th year of exporting it's product when it entered the US market. As to whether tariffs were a consideration, I'm sure they were. Even the sets (...) (25 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Let's be real here! We still have a trade embargo against Cuba because we're still miffed that they chose the USSR over *us* for their sugar daddy. Go ahead, try to find that argument in any textbook :-) Beth Reiten (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Beth, While I kind of agree, let's remember that Castro parked several nuclear missiles around 90 miles out of Florida, hence the embargo. I think it is just resentment against Castro, the loony! Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm going to guess anywhere from 35 to 45%. Though that is for all of the Americas, which LEGO's US subsidiary is in charge of. (...) The local affiliate is in charge of naming the set. (...) Good question. Either the U.S. or U.K., or maybe (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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