"Colin W Kingsbury" wrote in message
news

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Tsunami-struck Thailand has been told by the European Commission that
it
must buy six A380 Airbus aircraft if it wants to escape the tariffs
against
its fishing industry.

While millions of Europeans are sending aid to Thailand to help its
recovery, trade authorities in Brussels are demanding that Thai
Airlines,
its national carrier, pays £1.3 billion to buy its double-decker
aircraft."


Yah, talk about bad timing, huh? We're hardly on the side of the angels in
this, though. We have a 97% tariff on Thai prawns and pretty wicked stuff
on
Sri Lankan textiles and such as well.

Can they avoid those tariffs by purchasing Boeing Aircraft? :~)

Then, too, "timing is everything". Oh, and by the way, what are the tariffs
that Thailand and Sri Lanka place on US goods into their countries?


Would that we spent some of the money
on education or development so that people in South Carolina and Louisiana
could get jobs above third-world level.

We now spend $$$BILLIONS and produce some of the industrialized worlds most
illiterate people