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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness?
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 02:34:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 02:34:38 1985
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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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