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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:49:10 +0200
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again
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In-Reply-To: <p05100318b7525d0f1bde@[194.78.241.123]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:39:08PM +0200
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Brad Knowles said on Jun 17, 2001 at 15:39:08:
> 
> 	No, they build cars over here not because of labor costs, but 
> because the additional taxes that would be further levied on them if 
> they were imported from the US would make them even more 
> prohibitively expensive.  It's bad enough that they suffer 21% 
> Value-Added Tax (VAT) on top of all duties, and all the other bloody 
> taxes they have (which can easily make things at least 50% more 
> expensive over here than they are in the US), but they'd suffer even 
> worse if they tried to import these from the US.

Is import duty the reason most cars around here seem to be European?
I'd estimate 50%-60% of cars on French roads are French (Renault or
Peugeot/Citroen), 30%-35% are from other European countries, and just
a handful are Japanese or Korean and very few American.

- Rahul

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