Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is no rationale for this, just impulsive presidential pique and petulancy, as is wont to happen when the policymaker is reactive rather than proactive, gut-driven rather than rational, fixated on form, appearances, and pomp. I?d also bet that there is no ?team?. The above is intended as a more or less objective response to a question. Please, no counter-responses. I?m not trying to trigger a flame war or introduce politics into the LUG. ?howard > On 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information