In <1992Nov13.181714.1835@dcatlas.dot.gov> joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
>phillip@kiwi.gen.nz (Phillip Hardy) writes:
>>noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL) writes:
>>: I am still peaved that RAM prices have doubled overnight seamingly
>>: their cost from the distributers has gone up. Something is very fishy.
>>
>>Ok the same thing has happened here in New Zealand...two weeks ago i could get 1meg simms for NZ$60 and this week they are $80....the reason i was given was
>>something about the Korean ram haveing a higher import duty imposed on it in the States and that all the importers where now chasing the Japanese produced RAM
>>So with everyone getting the Japanese RAM the prices have gone up..Supply and
>>Demand I guess...
>NO! Not supply and demand; you are unfortunately paying for the result of
>the U.S. Government initiating the use of force to collect fees for which no
>service of value is provided, i.e. you are an indirect victim of extortion.
>In the U.S. now, rather than act to secure individual rights (the sole
>purpose for which it was chartered), the government "works" by granting
>benefits to one group at the forced expense of others, in this case
>certain business interests found it easier to complain than to compete.
>Granted, the Koreans were "dumping" at below cost, but people who are not
>so shortsighted would realize that "what goes around comes around". The
>kneejerk reaction, unfortunately, was to initiate the use of force in order
>to placate a body of future votes for those in office. This means that we
>all lose; once more the well-being of the producer being sacrificed at
>gunpoint (figuratively) for the well-being of the parasite.
Oh, horse manure. How can duties imposed IN THE U.S. affect prices of
DRAM in *NEW ZEALAND*, where they are presumably still able to buy
whatever Korean DRAM products the Koreans choose to dump there for the
original price? If anything, I would expect that (since the Koreans
are now gong to be interested in shipping someplace not subject to
U.S. duties) that prices should FALL elsewhere (glut due to Koreans
not being able to sell in the U.S.
When one party in a free market is effectively subsidized by their
government and is 'dumping' product, how can you call that
'competition'?
[I make bombs, not chips.]
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