Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!dmcanzi From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness? Message-ID: <1706@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 03:59:26 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1706 Posted: Sat Sep 28 03:59:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 04:14:45 EDT References: <1394@utcsri.UUCP> <2188@mnetor.UUCP> <2223@mnetor.UUCP> <14@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1692@watdcsu.UUCP> <2550@watcgl.UUCP> Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) Organization: University of Woolamaloo Lines: 29 Summary: In article <2550@watcgl.UUCP> jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) writes: >> "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.) > >Normally I'm willing to take this kind of information at face value >but it's pretty hard to believe these figures without some explanation. >What are they using as a base price for clothes? Perhaps the labour >component of the cost of shoes is relatively small so that any increase >in the price of materials is a high percentage increase in the retail >price. Since these figures come from the North-South institute are >they for Canada & US (& maybe Mexico) in which case they work out to >< $2/yr/person (pretty small) or are they just for Canada? How much >is actually spent on clothes in total (i.e. is $500 million 50%, 10%, >1% or 0.1% of the total?). I'm making an attempt to track down and obtain a copy of that study, just to find out how they estimate what clothes would cost without quotas, and how many jobs would be lost as a result of removing quotas. (It looks like a challenge... the local paper didn't know the name of the study, and they just got the information for their article from an article in another newspaper... and I was told that if I phoned the other newspaper, I'd probably found that *they* got it from yet another newspaper... and so on) -- David Canzi "It's Reagan's fault. Everything's Reagan's fault. Floods... volcanoes... herpes... Reagan's fault." -- Editor Overbeek, Bloom Beacon