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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] USA humbled
Looks like defeat to me. The local rags arent' giving it much spin or
headlines...except to offer the consolation that the tarriffs were there
to offer the steel industry time to retool
The EU was set to impose tariffs on imports of Florida oranges.
Seth
Re: USA humbled
by Devine, James
05 December 2003
it's a defeat in that Bush had to choose between losing votes in states that
would be slammed by the EU (and also the possibility of a true trade war)
and
losing votes
and not California ones?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
The EU was set to impose tariffs on imports of Florida oranges.
Seth
As I understand it, the idea was to target the tariffs on electoral battle
ground states and to target goods that could be bought elsewhere so that
European prices would not be affected much. I doubt that they could get
their tariffs precise enough to let Cal. oranges slide under, but it is a
Michael Perelman wrote:
As I understand it, the idea was to target the tariffs on electoral battle
ground states and to target goods that could be bought elsewhere so that
European prices would not be affected much. I doubt that they could get
their tariffs precise enough to let Cal. oranges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/03 11:58AM
Aren't Florida oranges mostly for juice, and Calif mostly for eating?
about 90% of florida oranges used for juice...
keep the x in xmas, michael hoover
Bush's withdrawal of protective steel tariffs looks a significant defeat, a
signal about the real balance of power, which is not overwhelmingly in
favour of the USA.
Or does it look differently to the west of the Atlantic? Or is it largely
invisible?
Chris Burford
London
Looks like defeat to me. The local rags arent' giving it much spin or
headlines...except to offer the consolation that the tarriffs were there
to offer the steel industry time to retool and reinvent
themselves...that this work was largely doneso now US steel is newly
competitive and tarriffs
it's a defeat in that Bush had to choose between losing votes in states that would be
slammed by the EU (and also the possibility of a true trade war) and losing votes in
the states whose steel industries are no longer protected. But the US industries that
use steel are going to gain.
Jim
