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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: "Dumping"
- Message-ID: <louis.724126071@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 02:07:51 GMT
- References: <W0Q==S_@engin.umich.edu> <1992Dec10.210803.17652@xsoft.xerox.com> <cSR=Y9B@engin.umich.edu> <1992Dec11.152259.14531@cs.rochester.edu> <0aR=sW=@engin.umich.edu>
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- jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec11.152259.14531@cs.rochester.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:
- >part. I simply posted what seemed to be the implication of your post.
- >You moan about workers losing their jobs at semiconductor plants.
- >What is your alternative?
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- I really don't know too much about Sematech, but Time recently had an
- article on the improvement in the worldwide position of US semiconductor
- sales, from a low of 36% to Japan's 46% or so, the latest figures put
- US at 42% and Japan at 41%, or thereabouts. Sematech is something the
- MITI in Japan would have instituted (and did) long ago to try to recover
- world position in a strategic industry -- strategic in the Japanese
- sense which is economic, not military.
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- Can anyone comment on just how effective Sematech has been? Is it
- possible that the Clinton administration will follow this path with
- other "strategic" industries?
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- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
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