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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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| | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Troy Cefaratti
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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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| | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Scott Edward Sanburn
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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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| | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Jonathan Wilson
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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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| | | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Scott Edward Sanburn
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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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| | | | | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Jonathan Wilson
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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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| | | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Mike Stanley
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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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| | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Troy Cefaratti
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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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| | | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Scott Edward Sanburn
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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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| | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Beth Reiten
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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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| | | | | | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?) —Scott Edward Sanburn
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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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