Quote Originally Posted by js207 View Post
The US has them as well - strict nationality restrictions on airline ownership, ban on using some imported metals on defense contracts (notably titanium, IIRC; I seem to remember that being a problem for Boeing recently) - and just this week I saw the French complaining about the 300% import tax on Roquefort cheese (and various other products of theirs, but the Roquefort tax was the highest and the one they complained about the most).

Indeed, a quick look at the subject will turn up dozens of cases of America imposing these restrictions: Canadian lumber, European cheese, Asian and South American shrimp, Canadian wheat, all foreign steel... Then there are all the agricultural and other subsidies: cotton, sugar, corn, the big tax breaks to Boeing (just as Europe gives them to Airbus)...
you're right of course, but then there are the ones that confuse the hell out of me. biggest example cars. it's all doom and gloom because they undercut us to hell and gone, but the restrictions aren't there to prevent it.

i love my toyota, seriously the only way to make me buy a ford is to make the toyota unavailable, or otherwise unattractive.

and now something else. anyone here a michael crighton fan? just reread rising sun and that's what promted my initial comment on eco-warfare.