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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Yes, if you answer one question. Do you think that importers/resellers added the tariff cost to the cost of the goods being resold?


177 posted on 11/06/2010 4:38:59 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge
Yes, if you answer one question. Do you think that importers/resellers added the tariff cost to the cost of the goods being resold?

Yes, to some extent. Obviously it was a cost. If it made a good uncompetitive to sell in the US, it wasn't sold. If the seller wanted to accept a smaller profit margin, he could absorb some of the cost to remain competitive.

Now explain how the south, buying a portion of imports proportional to their population, paid a wildly disproportionate amount of the tariff.

187 posted on 11/06/2010 2:23:10 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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