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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
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 03:59:26 1985
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Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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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...
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