From: Robert Comer 

Turnabout is fair play, so definitely yes, if only to somewhat balance things.

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Bob Comer


On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:03:14 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>are these reasons against or for an import tariff on Chinese goods?
>
>Geo.
>
>"Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>news:8tdh23pkdju6kpoarsqigoi3ljqpp221u6{at}4ax.com...
>> 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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