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From: Daryl Manning (no email)
Date: Wed Dec 15 2004 - 22:55:02 EST
Are you guys sure about this issue ? My guess is that under NAFTA rules
this would amount to protectionist measures and be challenged and
overturned.
I'd check to make this is *actual* legislation being considered and not
so silly *email tax* type scam thing running around the airwaves that
happens from time to time.
Of course, considering the US routinely ignores WTO rulings about
softwood lumber... =}
ciao !
Daryl.
On 15-Dec-04, at 5:31 AM, Dwight Yachuk wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:]On Behalf Of De Clarke
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:08 PM
> To: Live-Aboard
> 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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