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Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?)
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Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:47:03 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti wrote:
> 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.
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! :)
> 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)
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!
Scott Sanburn
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Scott E. Sanburn
CADD Operator, CADD Systems Administrator
Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI
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“The more people I meet, the more I like my Lego collection.”
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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 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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| (...) 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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| 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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