To: Willie Green
Augustine Tantillo, AMTAC's Washington coordinator, noted that when restrictions were lifted on 29 textile categories, Chinese exports rose by 600 percent on every description. Adding to the mix, U.S. officials then took more than a year to establish safeguard procedures intended to allow a protest venue for American manufacturers to show cause why those restrictions should be reimposed.Where do Americans get these silly notions of having the freedom to purchase any product they choose? The government and "impartial" individuals such as Mr. Tantillo are in a much better position to decide which products Americans should be allowed to purchase!
2 posted on
06/12/2003 1:23:44 PM PDT by
Onelifetogive
(Freedom is for losers!)
To: Willie Green
The cost to protect each textile industry job makes all others pale in comparison- the price tag is roughly $1 mil. Yes, you heard me right. This comes straight out of an economics textbook. Let's do the right thing: let the free hand of economic competition sort it out, and let's offer re-training to the textile employees here so they can find new jobs. Protectionism- unless there are serious mitigating circumstances such as dumping- does not work.
To: Willie Green; HighRoadToChina; Jeff Head; ntrulock; Noswad; swarthyguy
Embargo the Axis (PRC, DPRK, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, France, Germany, Libya, Zimbabwe, S. Africa, Congo, Angola, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Laos).
6 posted on
06/12/2003 1:36:30 PM PDT by
GOP_1900AD
(Un-PC even to "Conservatives!" - Right makes right)
To: Willie Green
Working on the design side, I know that in thast 10 years, my company has gone from manufacturing 100% of our product in the U.S. to roughly 5% in the U.S.
Hong Kong, China, and India are one stop shopping for apparel companies. We send them the design and 30 days later we have a completed garment sample, 60 days after that, we have product in our warehouse ready to ship to our customers. We used to have to wait 30 days just for fabric from U.S. mills.
The real problem with the American textile companies was their slow reaction to this Asian "vertical" business model. Many U.S. firms would still be in business if they could deliver a finished product rather than just the fabric.
Admittedly, price has been a huge factor as well. With more and more people shopping the WalMart's of the world, demanding $9.99 shirts, they shopped themselves right out of a job.
15 posted on
06/12/2003 2:12:32 PM PDT by
Weimdog
To: Willie Green
IT'S ABOUT TIME
To: All
28 posted on
06/12/2003 6:58:06 PM PDT by
RadioFR
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