Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!reid From: reid@dciem.UUCP (David Brake c/o Reid Ellis) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness? Message-ID: <1679@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:31:56 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1679 Posted: Tue Sep 17 11:31:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 13:18:12 EDT References: <1394@utcsri.UUCP> <2186@mnetor.UUCP> Reply-To: reid@dciem.UUCP (David Brake c/o Reid Ellis) Distribution: can Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 33 In article <2186@mnetor.UUCP> clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes: >In article <1394@utcsri.UUCP> peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley) writes: >>1. Japan has had high import duties for a long time. >>2. Japan's industry is highly competitive in the world market. >>3. Canada's duties have been lower than Japan's for a long time. >>4. Canada's competitiveness is less than Japan's in the world market. >>Therefore, we should RAISE duties so our industry can become >>competitive like Japan's. > >You left out several other variables. Particularly, salaries. > >Therefore, we should either: > 1) LOWER the salaries for our workers so that our industry > can be more price-competitive. > 2) RAISE the salaries of Japanese workers so that their industry > can be less price-competitive. >I don't think either is particularly likely. Though, elimination of >import duties may put pressure on (1). >Chris Lewis, >UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!clewis >BELL: (416)-475-8980 ext. 321 Don't forget the advantage that the Japanese have accrued through having a sparklig new industrial machine because their old one was destroyed in WW II. I suggest that we raze Canada's cities to the ground (odd saying isn't it...) and start our industries from scratch. David Brake English Majors are People Too. -- -- Reid Ellis "Roads? Where we're going, who needs _roads_?" {If!you!want!to!know!where!I!live,!look!at!the!header..}