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From: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gun Control is a firm grip)
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Subject: Re: Who cares if its made in USA?
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Date: 24 Jun 91 23:35:08 GMT
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In article <rkushner.1983@sycom.UUCP> rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes:
>jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>>Quoted from <1991Jun23.201535.22178@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> by rjc@geech.gnu.ai.m
>>
>IT IS CHEAPER to buy it from the US after it was dumped there...
>
>Thing is, I hear that EVERYTHING is Japan is priced about 250% than it would
>be in the United States. So if they did have an open market, they (The giant
>Japanese corperate culture) will have to compete with products that could cost
>250% less than theirs....They can't have that....

i would believe this. My sister is in the navy and went to Japan, "PI" <the 
phillipenes (sp?) islands> among other ports in eastern asia during Westpack.
Anyway she found a JVC reciever in Japan for ~$280 US. In the PI it was $220.
I suppose here in NYC I could find it anywhere between $200-$350, depending on
where I looked and when.

Someone commented about the previa costing $7000 more in Japan than in the US.
Isnt this dumping, which is illegal???

>I talked to a guy from Japan that was working here for the Auto industry( I
>did heating and cooling when the market was good so I met alot of people
>from alot of places), he still said he plans on staying here because the cost
>of living is so much less than back home...Where he couldn't afford a house..
>
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