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- From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Trade War?
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 23:32:18 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- References: <6NOV92.03424517@skyfox.usask.ca> <1992Nov6.164840.1526@bnr.ca> <BxB4ME.9BC@apollo.hp.com>
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- In article <BxB4ME.9BC@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
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- | I think US policy is stupid and indefensible on 3 counts:
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- I agree, even though I don't, as a rule, defend free trade. Policies
- such as this need to react to problems in a particular way. Was france
- dumping white wine? No, american farmers are just hurting a bit from
- the recession. You should not try to solve recession problems with a
- trade war. Now, if the French has *suddenly* increased a tarriff on
- one of our goods, and it threatend our industry, then you might have a
- case. But this was not the situation at all.
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- Also, you have to weigh the situation depending on bargaining power.
- That is, can we win the trade war or do we loose since we cannot wait
- as long as france? Or are we hopeing that europe will not join in
- solidarity with france or retaliate? I don't know the answers to these
- questions, but I also doubt that "Free-Trade" George Bush does
- either!
- --
- "There is nothing in the marginal conditions that
- distinguish a mountain from a mole hill"
- Kenneth Boulding
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- All comments are mine---(David Wright)
- david@cats.ucsc.edu.
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