Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Christensen wrote: > > Holiday Greetings! > > . . .This morning, the newspaper reported that the Clinton > administration may invoke Section 301 of the U.S. trade law due to a dispute > over banana imports. The threatened punitive action would impose 100% > tariffs on hundreds of millions of dollars in European imports. Simply put, > the price would double. . . . It is not known if this will affect our beloved > Leicas. I heard this news report on the radio the other day, and wondered if it would affect photo products. The radio reported a number of categories of goods that might be affected, but as I recall they sounded like agricultural and perhaps pharmaceutical or cosmetic products. Of course this could just have been a selected list of stuff, but I don't remember mention being made of what I would call "hard" goods. FWIW. Cheers, Kip