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To: neutrino
What kind of car do you drive?

2000 Dodge Caravan. Assembled in Canada. Engine is the made in Mexico base model. Executive management, mostly German, I suppose. Most of the parts, American, but even American parts have little bits and pieces on them coming from dozens of additional countries. Most of the engineering, American. Repairs, least of any car we've had, and we're up to 80,000 miles.

Any country that tries to regulate a stop to this is going to wind up as poor as, well, India, which is only in the early stages of recovery from decades of disasterous protectionism.

59 posted on 03/22/2004 7:42:04 PM PST by Steve Eisenberg
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To: Steve Eisenberg
Any country that tries to regulate a stop to this is going to wind up as poor as, well, India, which is only in the early stages of recovery from decades of disasterous protectionism.

That's the current conventional wisdom. But India has high trade barriers presently - and high growth as well. This represents a logical inconsistency - and, I think, illustrates a fallacy in the fundamental theory of free trade.

60 posted on 03/22/2004 7:50:40 PM PST by neutrino (Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.)
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