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