From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!mel
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Title: Re: Outrageous Import Tax
Article-I.D.: houxm.334
Posted: Mon Feb 21 16:24:14 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 04:53:05 1983
References: ih1ap.126

The Japanese import iron ore, rubber, coal, and oil over thousands
of miles of ocean.  Smelt all this with imported fuel, fashion
motorcycles out of the raw products, then ship them back over
thousands of miles of ocean, stand a 4.4% import tax  --  and then
get accused of being "unfair" to American manufacturers because their
price is too low.  How can this be?  Somewhere some basic laws of
nature must be being violated, or what?  Could it be that the American
products just are rotten (I never see anything but BMWs and Japanese
products mentioned here)?  Or is someone raking off too much profit
somewhere in the chain?  Fighting this war with an additional tax is
assinine.  Locate the enemy, and fight him (I have a feeling he is
here in the U.S., not in Japan).   Mel Haas  ,  houxm!mel