Re:Google’s $6B Miscalculation on the EU
by scott_s on Friday August 07, 2015 @01:06PM
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By what metric are you claiming the US is less protectionist than most other nations? We have a lot of farm subsidies and tariffs and limitations in imports, and I have never heard any claim that the US somehow does significantly less than other nations.
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Re:Google’s $6B Miscalculation on the EU
by marcosdumay on Friday August 07, 2015 @10:15PM
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Interesting, that kind of data is much easier to get than I expected.
From the Word Bank data, there were 40 countries with lower median tariffs than the US, 4 tied with it, 71 with higher tariffs, and 98 without data in 2013.
Between the countries with lower tariffs there are extremely rich ones, fiscal paradises, EU countries (that have zero tariffs between themselves), and 4 poor ones.
Between the countries with higher tariffs there are basically the poor countries, and Australia. I don't think I've seen any other rich country there.
So, yes, the US is within the countries with lower tariffs. But also yes, every other country that you'll think of has probably lower tariffs than you.