Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:17468 comp.sys.atari.st:9000 comp.sys.ibm.pc:14316 comp.sys.mac:14966 sci.electronics:2751 comp.arch:4311
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter
From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,sci.electronics,comp.arch
Subject: Re: GATT declares U.S. - Japan chip pact illegal
Message-ID: <6060@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 10 Apr 88 23:57:29 GMT
References: <2441@unicus.UUCP> <1259@hubcap.UUCP> <3280@fluke.COM> <1563@homxa.UUCP> <131@obie.UUCP>
Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu
Reply-To: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Lines: 34

In article <131@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>In article <1563@homxa.UUCP>, wada@homxa.UUCP (R.WADSACK) writes:
>> A few years ago there was an article in the Sunday Star-Ledger
>> (of Newark, NJ).  The story was a write-up of an interview with
>> a high school foreign exchange student from Japan.  There were
>> the usual questions about how he liked his new school, the food,
>> his new friends, etc., etc., etc.
>>  
>> The reporter also asked him what was one of the most surprising
>> things about this country.  His answer -- how inexpensive the
>> radios and cameras were here compared to Japan.  Huh????
>

  Prices in Japan are typically higher then their U.S. prices. Japanese
companies use the protected home market to finance their foreign markets.
For instance a Nikon camera is about 50$ more in Japan then in the U.S.
to get around "dumping" charges the two cameras have different "model"
numbers, even though they're identical cameras.
  Maybe someday the U.S. will wake up and set trade barriers defined to be
equivalent to precisly equivalent to the country of origins barriers to U.S.
goods. That is, while Japan practices garbage like it has traditionally done
(Tire Approval?) We do the same. They lower their barriers, we lower ours.
 
 Pierce WEtter


According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are
totally worthless.

--------------------------------------------

wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu

--------------------------------------------