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To: RetiredNow who wrote (129989)	2/7/2017 6:31:50 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 217650

Brazil is a different country than China and they do things differently. Mexico used to have the same import taxes rolled into the VAT - but now they don't. Brazil still does, but we haven't heard Trump saying he's going to get tough with Brazil. I'll be very impressed if we can suddenly end up with a better deal with China. We can move to no deal and high import tariffs and see how people like that.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (129989)	2/7/2017 6:43:02 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217650

It's just like the choice where we can stop issuing new H1B Visas, which will increase the compensation for jobs which remain in the US. This will be a trade-off with the engineering and other jobs created at the new IBM engineering facility in India rather in America. We can stop issuing agricultural visas and see how much of our farming moves to Mexico. Sony used to own the television set business. But in the transition to panel televisions Sony sold flat panel sets which would have artifacts in the picture and unexpectedly reboot. Sony needed more engineering work on their TVs but Samsung and LG paid engineers 50% of what Sony paid their engineers, so it's no surprise the TV market now belongs to Samsung and LG rather than Sony. Switzerland has a nice ring of import duties so everyone in Switzerland earns "a lot of money", but because of the extremely high costs "a lot of money" doesn't go very far in Switzerland. These are all trade-offs and it'll be interesting to see where we go with them.