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- From: raphael@fx.com (Glen Raphael)
- Subject: Re: "Dumping"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.233237.16349@fx.com>
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- References: <1992Dec13.203301.10259@henson.cc.wwu.edu> <louis.724286860@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:32:37 GMT
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- louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth) writes:
- >I don't consider the interchange between James Douglas Del-Vecchio) and
- >cogsdell@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (tony c) to be particularly fruitful, but
- >there is a point to consider. Japan has long protected its home market
- >from foreign competition to enable it's strategic industries (and many
- >that are not strategic) to get up to speed in technology and market
- >share.
-
- So has the US. We just consider different industries to be "strategic".
- There's a perception here that there is a huge difference between
- Japanese trade policy and US trade policy, with Japan having big barriers
- and the US having none. This is false. As one example, the US routinely
- "dumps" agricultural products on the rest of the world, at a loss, in
- order to increase exports.
-
- >An example cited in Lester Thurow's book, "Head to Head," is
- >of the television satellite industry.
-
- >``If Japanese firms are not yet prepared to compete, foreign firms are
- >head at bay. Satellite television is such an industry at the moment.
- >To give the domestic industry time to get organized, the Ministry of
- >Post and Telecommunications *prohibits its citizens* [emphasis added]
- >from having the dishes necessary to receive satellit signals from
- >foreign broadcasts.''
-
- The US does the exact same thing.
-
- The US *prohibits its citizens* from purchasing canadian ice cream. In fact,
- only Jamaica, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and New Zealand may sell
- any ice cream to America. Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- "Handbook on Section 22 Dairy Quotas and Import Licensing System, April
- 1988, p. 10.
- The US *prohibits its citizens* from purchasing foreign butter.
- The US *prohibits its citizens* from purchasing more than a set quantity
- of thousands of items from every country in the world. Textiles,
- machine-tools, agricultural products, steel...
-
- >Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
-
- Glen Raphael
- raphael@fx.com
-