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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Memory prices going crazy
- Message-ID: <129@complex.complex.is>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 09:12:20 GMT
- References: <Bx5CME.Bq3@apollo.hp.com> <1992Nov4.225723.10378@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland
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- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >> The anti-dumping duties are NOT going to be levied against DRAMs
- >> and SIMMs imported as a component of a computer system. Another
- >> word, only computers (also workstations, laser printers, etc.)
- >> assembled in the US are going to be taxed...
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- I wonder if whoever got this "bright" idea considered that this would then
- drive up the prices of US-made computers exported, making them less
- competitive than they are today - thus reducing exports, etc....
-
- -frisk (who until now bought most of his computers from the US)
-