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By: An argument for Free Trade | The Marmot's Hole

An argument for Free Trade | The Marmot's Hole — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:59:34 +0000

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By: slim

slim — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:20:23 +0000

Dram_man was talking only of Korean tariffs and their effect on the end-user price of food (from anywhere), so a generalized discussion of bilateral trade imbalances is off-topic here.

By: cm

cm — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:55:23 +0000

It’s highly related since you’re one of the harshest critic when it comes to ROK – US trade, and support reciprocal US trade retaliations.

By: Dram_man

Dram_man — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:27:21 +0000

Er…OK. How is that related to the post? Seems a bit of red herring.

By: cm

cm — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:17:35 +0000

#9, like I said, I agree with you overly protective tariffs are bad for the average Korean consumer. I just wanted to make a point that US-Korea trade isn’t all one sided trade that Americans particularly complain about.

By: Dram_man

Dram_man — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:07:56 +0000

Actually to be fair, you are missing my point. I could care less in this case which specific country you are talking about, the US, Australia, or even China. The tariff system is one of the top, easily fixable reasons Korea has high food prices. I could care less where it comes from, and neither does Mr. Kim who wants more food, or more disposable income.

By: Dram_man

Dram_man — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:00:46 +0000

@cm Wow! What an unbelievable inadvertent elitist argument! “Gee Mr. Kim, I know you want to feed your family more rice, and make beef more than a once in a year treat. However, you need to understand that Mr. Lee is spending all this money to educate his kid in the US.”