Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:49:10 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <20010617154910.I61742@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p05100318b7525d0f1bde@[194.78.241.123]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:39:08PM %2B0200 References: <000301c0f6fc$9d87fb60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <p05100318b7525d0f1bde@[194.78.241.123]>
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Brad Knowles said on Jun 17, 2001 at 15:39:08: > > No, they build cars over here not because of labor costs, but > because the additional taxes that would be further levied on them if > they were imported from the US would make them even more > prohibitively expensive. It's bad enough that they suffer 21% > Value-Added Tax (VAT) on top of all duties, and all the other bloody > taxes they have (which can easily make things at least 50% more > expensive over here than they are in the US), but they'd suffer even > worse if they tried to import these from the US. Is import duty the reason most cars around here seem to be European? I'd estimate 50%-60% of cars on French roads are French (Renault or Peugeot/Citroen), 30%-35% are from other European countries, and just a handful are Japanese or Korean and very few American. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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