[Leica] As if Leica lenses were not expensive enough.......

[Tina Manley]

Many "German" cars are made very close to my farm in Spartanburg, SC.  I
think somebody pointed this out to Drumpf when he wanted to impose tariffs
on all German cars.

Tina

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:57 PM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

>  Tariffs are typically used and defended as a way to protect US made goods
> (jobs), by making foreign goods more expensive.The last production Optical
> house I know of in the US is Century Precision Optics.  Owned by Schneider
> ( German ) they typically make optics for the movie industry and sometimes
> military.  Their entire production is small by Leica standards.
> As usual with tariff wars and specifically this one, the point of this
> tariff is lost on me..... What are we protecting?  There is no real
> consumer or pro optics maker in the US left.
> It does help / protect Japanese and CHINESE optical houses........ who are
> the leading  optical houses by $$$ or quantity in the World/US.
> The other purpose of Tariffs is to financially hurt another country.  In
> this case, Germany. Our biggest European trade partner ( $54B Germany /
> $283B EU).  If Leica ( 2018 sales of 417M Euros or about $500M)  completely
> disappeared tomorrow, as well as any and all other German Optical companies
> like Schneider  and Rodenstock (same size as Leica), would the economy of
> Germany ( currently at a bit under $4Trillion) even notice?
>
> What do we want from Germany anyway???  or, Why is this strategy against
> Germany a good idea?  What is the point?  Apparently this is to get US
> Automotive advantages.  Reduce the number of imported German cars. Make
> more US cars.
> Why not up a tariff on the cars themselves?  Fight fire with fire.
>
> Now you know why I was an Engineer and not a diplomat or government
> bureaucrat.Linear thinking, that's me.
> Brilliant strategy, that's the team making up these tariffs.
>
> I realize that you may not agree with me, that this tariff serves a
> purpose, or with MY political point of view....
>
> November 5, 2019 is coming.  VOTE!
>
> Frank FilipponeRed735i at verizon.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Cc: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 7:06 am
> Subject: Re: [Leica] As if Leica lenses were not expensive enough.......
>
> On the bright side, German machetes and tweezers were exempted. Some
> pretty high-level thinking here.
>
> Ken
>
> On 10/8/2019 12:24 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote:
> >  Trump's new 25% US tax on European products includes cameras and lenses
> and could significantly increase the price of Leica gear in the US. Here
> are the details:
> > Read more:
> https://leicarumors.com/2019/10/07/trumps-new-25-us-tax-on-european-products-includes-cameras-and-lenses-coming-from-germany-will-leica-gear-get-more-expensive-in-the-us.aspx/#ixzz61mgtdDW3
> >
> > Frank FilipponeRed735i at verizon.net
> >
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