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From: Dwight Yachuk (no email)
Date: Wed Dec 15 2004 - 08:31:11 EST
I called the Department of Finance on this issue last week.
The concern is to put tarrifs in place that hurt US producers not Canadians.
Since I plan to buy a used US boat next spring I wrote in stating that the tarrifs should not be on used boats.
I suggest those who would be affected write in as well.
dwight
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Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:08 PM
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Subject: Re: lv-ab: Fwd: 100% Surtax on US Made boats
Corinne Sutter-Brown () wrote:
>
> > >
> > > As I am sure, many of you have heard the Canadian government is
> > > considering putting a 100% surtax on yachts and other pleasure
> > > boats made in the U. S. and imported into Canada. If the
> > > government goes ahead with this it would double the cost of boats
> > > coming into Canada. The result would be devastating to our
> > > industry and to our businesses.
not too good all around, as the usual response to a move like this is
for the insulted party (the US in this case) to slap on a mirror-tariff
in the other direction. which would effectively prevent me from ever
bringing my recently-purchased Canadian boat into the US, as I simply
cannot pay the purchase price over again.
what I mean is that these trade wars tend to escalate, and while the
big business interests sometimes find clever ways around the rules,
with all their false-flag operations and armies of lawyers, the small
business person and the consumer get socked in the gut.
aieee. as if buying a boat wasn't already complicated enough, now I
get to worry about this? sigh.
de
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