Date: 11 Dec 1998 11:23:02 GMT From: "Cigan-Dorman" <Cigan-dormannopsamdnet.att.net> Subject: Re: US import quotas??? [was: Who cares about "Volvo World Record"]
Fact: America is the most trade protective nation in the world. Fact: In 1997 we brought a German registered, European manufactured Saab to the USA. Luckily the car was registered in the name of my German wife. I as an American had no fair chance of importing that car. What I learned would make you sick. Then consider the state emissions requirements and registration. Talk about protection! Your knowledge is effected by the propaganda you've been feed. meyer_bnopsamejanews.com wrote in message <74p8tk$tje$1nopsam1.dejanews.com>... >In article <74otka$i0$1nopsam.news.technocom.net>, > "Adrian" <anorthnopsamhil.co.uk> wrote: >> Let me get this right? An AMERICAN is complaining about protective trade >> policies????????? >> Get a life and look at your own 'free' market - British Quota taken by >> Jaguar & Rolls Royce!!! >> I bet VW Only gets a look in because they build the things across the border >> in Mexico, otherwise BMW & Merc would get all Germany's quota (And STILL >> Have to not supply the market!). >> Why do you think so many companies now build in the US? > >What??? I'm sorry, but the only quotas on auto imports to America are the >"voluntary" ones the Japanese agreed to quite some time ago, and which have >fallen into disuse. Import duties on cars in American are also the lowest in >the world (although imports on trucks are higher). > > Rover, Fiat, Peugeot and other European cars disapeared from the American >market because what they sold here was junk, unable to compete even with >domestic US cars, to say nothing of Japanese ones. America's auto market is >open to any company that cares to meet US standards, and those that do come >from Japan, Sweden, Korea, England, Mexico, Canada, the UK, Germany, Italy >and others. The UK and the EC, on the other hand, have exorbitant duties on >imported cars, which is the only way companies like Fiat, Rover and the like >can get away with selling the second rate vehicles they make. > >Companies build in the US because it's cheaper to make them here than it is to >make them in Germany/Japan and ship them. In case you haven't noticed, the >European auto industry has the highest cost salary/benefits structure in the >world. > >Your knowledge of economics and trade are severly limited, my friend. > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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