2 Jul
2024
2 Jul
'24
8:40 p.m.
I was once told that the Chinese government subsidises post in exchange for
getting prompt tax returns. Don't know how true that is.
There's also some sort of agreement between postal services that means
every country gets uncharged local deliveries in the destination countries
in exchange for uncharged local deliveries in china. I think this is how
the subsidy works - the chinese post being government owned can arrange
their accounting so they don't have to balance these sums out. Thus
exporters can aggregate their deliveries into a bulk carrier (hence the
delay that's longer than DHL/UPS) and pay nothing for the last leg.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 8:27 PM Johan Helsingius via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
It becomes a political discussion. On one hand the US
is all about
"free trade" (when it is an issue of selling US products abroad)
but then the US imposes trade barriers against other countries.
Yes, the Chinese government does subsidise exports. So do
most countries.
Julf
On 02/07/2024 21:05, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, Adrian Godwin via cctalk
wrote:
"in
Chinese to UK shipments are still relatively
cheap but have also risen
somewhat with more sellers charging for postage.
eBay Chinese shipping seems impossibly low.
Does the Chinese guvmint sunsidize shipping exports?
Does that influence the balance of trade? (and demise of USA industry?)
Decades ago, USA was concerned about "dumping" (charging excessively low
prices for exports to USA). They decided that RAM was being "dumped",
order to drive out USA competition", so USA
set up punitive tariffs on
handheld power tools, and LCD panels (which contributed to the
elimination
of laptop manufacturing in USA).
I don't understand why the punitive tariffs were not on the items being
"abused".
Jerry Pournelle said, "How get we get them to dump Mercedes?"
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com