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- From: kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: "Dumping"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.165259.9718@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:52:59 GMT
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- In article <louis.724349346@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth) writes:
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- %It isn't high wages that causes the American companies to be
- %non-competitive, it is the low productivity. Lester Throw reports and
- %documents that Germany is the leading exporter of textiles with wages
- %running about $4 an hour higher than US textile workers. They work
- %smarter with better machines, better management, and a different view of
- %human resources. Helmut Kohl and crew cannot be put down as leftists.
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- Yeah, but the number of people EMPLOYED in the mills is very highly
- regulated by government. It is REALLY hard to find a job in the EC.
- This can be booth good or bad. We tend to value jobs more than
- products here in the US (hence the 90's term "jobilism").
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- U.S. Manufacturing productivity was up over 22% last year, according to
- Forbes and U.S. Gov't data. There are actually many cases of US manufactured
- goods penetrating Asian markets. Motorola communications products come to mind.
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- I think the root problem lies in strength of the U.S. dollar on world
- F/X markets and non-competitiveness (due to high import tarriffs, and
- resulting retaliatory tarriffs) of U.S. manufactured goods.
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- Let's face it: 9/10 times "dumping" is basically the selling of products
- on the world market when the "world" equilibrium price is higher that the
- domestic equilibrium price. All countries have a "natural advantage" in some
- area or another, this is simple Ricarian economics.
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- Japan does it with cars to the US, and we (the US) do it to the world with our
- agriculture products. The US is becoming so incredibly protectionist that
- soon we're going to become a "centrist" government.
-
- BTW-
- This might just be paranoia (I don't want to get on a "those #$%&%$ Japanese"
- speeches a 'la Iacocca), but I firmly believe that the current Industrial
- Policy of Japan is rooted in a deep hatred of the U.S. over the WW II
- nuclear bombing. Has this been kicked around in this newsgroup before?
- Any "proof" of this?
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- Kevin Carothers {psivax,philabs,retix,quad1}!ttidca!kevin
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