Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!robinson From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness? Message-ID: <21@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 02:34:38 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.21 Posted: Wed Sep 25 02:34:38 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 14:37:05 EDT References: <1394@utcsri.UUCP> <2188@mnetor.UUCP> <2223@mnetor.UUCP> <14@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1692@watdcsu.UUCP> Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 21 Summary: In article <1692@watdcsu.UUCP> dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) writes: > >This quote is from an article about textile import quotas that appeared >on the editorial page of the local newspaper a couple of months ago: > >"The North-South Institute in Ottawa estimated in 1981 that consumers >had to pay an additional $500 million for their clothes, or about $83,000 >a year for every job saved." (That works out to about 6000 jobs.) I read somewhere several months ago that each job saved due to import quotas in the US auto industry costed about $160,000. The US finally came to its senses, realized that that was an unacceptable price to pay, and discontinued placing quotas on imported cars. In one of his more lucid moments Bill Bennet once said that the only thing car import quotas do is cost British Columbians money. How true. J.B. Robinson