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To: 1rudeboy

The wood was in the import number and the screwdriver was in the GNP number.

Lets say wood is 16% of the cost of the screw driver. (Coincidently the same porportion as tariffs to GNP). And let’s say the screw driver costs $1.00 to produce pre-tariff and the wood costs $0.16 to import. We increase the cost of the wood by 10% so it now costs $0.176. Nothing else changes, so the cost to produce the screwdriver is $1.016, a 1.6% increase.


155 posted on 01/24/2014 11:43:11 AM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
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158 posted on 01/24/2014 11:45:41 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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