From: "Geo." 

are these reasons against or for an import tariff on Chinese goods?

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> They don't go after China and they are a far bigger threat than we
> are.  We have no manufacturing capacity anymore.
>
> You really have to study up on what China is doing, they're far worse
> protectionists/anti free trade than we have ever been.
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:36:15 +0100, Ad
>  wrote:
>
>>Geo. wrote:
>>> "Ad" 
wrote in message
>>> news:462708a9{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>>>> This is required least we want China to take our
entire manufacturing
>>>>> base..
>>>
>>>> I'll bet the renminbi is tracking the dollar.
>>>
>>> What we really should be doing here, given that the chinese economy is
>>> starting to overheat, is we should just slap a large import duty on
>>> chinese goods and claim it's to help regulate the chinese economy. That
>>> way we get the extra money from the correction instead of them
>>> increasing the value of thier currency (or us decreasing ours).
>>>
>>> To me this makes far more sense but hey.. I don't get to run the country
>>> this week.
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>
>>A) the same thing would happen in reverse all over the place. Lot's of
>>countries would slam duties onto imports from the US claiming you're
>>using "currency dumping"
>>
>>B) The WTO would go after you with a spiky buttplug.
>>
>>
>>Adam

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