Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: High Duties => Increased Competitiveness? Message-ID: <2573@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2573 Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 06:20:56 EDT References: <1394@utcsri.UUCP> <2188@mnetor.UUCP> <2223@mnetor.UUCP> <14@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1692@watdcsu.UUCP> <2550@watcgl.UUCP> <22@ubc-cs.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 30 > In article <2550@watcgl.UUCP> jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) writes: > >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?). > > The above questions are rather irrelevant. The fact of the matter is Ahhhh! This clears up a lot of your previous postings; now I can understand how you reason. There's no point in knowing what region figures apply to - they are correct for some place so we may as well use them for us too eh? No point in knowing how much of total cost these duties account for eh? 10% is as bad as 0.1% right? > that (low-tech) jobs are being subsidized to the tune of $83,000 per. > If that isn't a gross misallocation of resources then I don't know what is. > > J.B. Robinson > > The opinions expressed above may concur exactly with those of Ed > Broadbent. Then again, they may not. -- John Chapman ...!watmath!watcgl!jchapman Disclaimer : These are not the opinions of anyone but me and they may not even be mine.