I think china is doing a bang up job of ruining our economy with or without industrial spying. Our people and government do not seem to have any will to stop it. Perhaps we have the greater share of the blame.
ETO members from Brazil and [SIZE=+1]Venezuela have tell me they have around 50% inport duty and are limited to buying about $400US in electronics goods manufactured elsewhere.
I expect that few people in the US would like living under such restrictions. However there has to be a point where we put the survival of the economy/country first. I doubt anyone could with a platform advocating this and get elected.
Any law passed that increased the cost of manufacture in the US should impose a balancing import tariff. It would improve out ability to compete with countries that have few labor laws or environmental protections.
Determining the dollar amounts of such tariffs would be difficult but such efforts could be funded by revenue from the tariffs.
Another problem is that such protection stifles the need to improve efficiency. Maybe that is not all bad in that it means jobs for the masses?
It is clear that developing nations (can we still say 3rd world) advance by exporting their cheap goods to the rest of the world. To a degree I support this but at what point to we stop eroding our industrial and perhaps even intellectual base.
It seems that the large transformers used by the electrical grid are no longer manufactured in the US. If the sun were to overload the grid we would have to wait for the overseas factory to get around to making replacements. Too many issues like this.
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ETO members from Brazil and [SIZE=+1]Venezuela have tell me they have around 50% inport duty and are limited to buying about $400US in electronics goods manufactured elsewhere.
I expect that few people in the US would like living under such restrictions. However there has to be a point where we put the survival of the economy/country first. I doubt anyone could with a platform advocating this and get elected.
Any law passed that increased the cost of manufacture in the US should impose a balancing import tariff. It would improve out ability to compete with countries that have few labor laws or environmental protections.
Determining the dollar amounts of such tariffs would be difficult but such efforts could be funded by revenue from the tariffs.
Another problem is that such protection stifles the need to improve efficiency. Maybe that is not all bad in that it means jobs for the masses?
It is clear that developing nations (can we still say 3rd world) advance by exporting their cheap goods to the rest of the world. To a degree I support this but at what point to we stop eroding our industrial and perhaps even intellectual base.
It seems that the large transformers used by the electrical grid are no longer manufactured in the US. If the sun were to overload the grid we would have to wait for the overseas factory to get around to making replacements. Too many issues like this.
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