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The REASON You Charge a 29% Tariff on an Island with No Exports, Explained

Jim Bauer @porwest (112864) • United States 7 Apr 25

Why would the United States impose a 29% tariff on an island of 2,100 people with no exports? I'm talking, of course, about Norfolk Island, caught between New Zealand and Australia, that has become a discussion topic around...

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I supported my US myLot friends today

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382259) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jul 24

I had a hankering for ginger biscuits once and made myself some. Vince said they’d be better if they had walnuts in them so now I add walnuts. I seem to be forever making them so now I make a double lot and freeze some. I went...

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So this was lunch

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169489) • United States 2 Mar 19

We ordered the same meal yesterday, with the exception of hubby substituting warm potato salad for the spaetzle. (noodles). We had jaegerschnitzle ( pork cutlet, breaded and fried), and cooked red cabbage and then the noodles or...

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India Gold Imports Drop

Mohammed Karjatwala @karjatwala (1120) • Pune, India 13 Apr 16

The drop could be not due to the reduction of consumption but due to the ongoing strike since more than a month. Once the strike is called off, there will be a surge in the import of gold to compensate for the...

Do You Buy Imported Items?

Lynn Proctor @ThankyouLord (698) • St. Petersburg, Florida 30 Nov 15

One of the fascinating things to me about buying goods that are manufactured or made in another country, is that the quality is often much better than items we buy here. No doubt much of it is because so much of American goods now...

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Time to learn Chinese?

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 26 Jun 10

Obama is supposed to meet with Chinas President, Hu Jintao. He approves of China allowing their yuan to rise above the American dollar. Obama believes that this will increase US exports to China. What exactly do we export to China...

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Are you more likely to buy something made in your own country?

maezee @maezee (41985) • United States 26 Sep 09

I ask this because the United States relies mainly on imported fabrics and most ouf our products are made and assembled outside of the US. Some companies, like "American Apparel" boast of the fact that they're "made in the USA",...

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extended family members!!!

vanities @vanities (11395) • Davao, Philippines 17 Dec 08

Hello guys!!! Christmas is 7 days away and my daughter will be home on the 24th day of this month!! im so excited at last we will be complete celebrating this holiday season not only so but together with my 3 nieces who are with...

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Now we find contaminated candy from China?

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 30 Sep 08

Baby formula, candy http://www.ktvu.com/news/17587125/detail.html ...toys with lead in them...when will we learn? We are so accustomed to imports from China, how do we make a change?

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Do you believe that Ford motor company has the best cars?

AnnaB7 @AnnaB7 (756) • United States 10 Jul 08

If you do why do you feel this way, is it because one of your parents or other family worked for Ford motor company, or is it because that it is an American company with American employees. If you were in the market for a car...

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Drug heparin coming from China and unregulated

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 3 Jun 08

China is doing it again. Why are we trusting them? It seems many small family businesses are the people who make the drug heparin which we are importing. They have no rules, no supervision, and the use of parts from sick animals...

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The Real Reason for Rising Gas Prices

clrumfelt @clrumfelt (5597) • Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee 24 Apr 08

There is plenty of gasoline for the taking. Domestic oil reserves in Alaska, other public lands and the Gulf of Mexico. There is enough oil there to power all of the USA for the forseeable future, yet Congress have repeatedly...

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Surplus shop

bagumbayan @bagumbayan (2705) • Philippines 15 Apr 08

Do you have it in your place. Second hand shoes, bags, clothes, household equipments, musical instruments, kitchen utensils name it, we have it. This surplus shop started in one region here in our country. And now you will see...

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Appreciation Of Rupee Value

deep_enjoy @deep_enjoy (237) • India 18 Feb 08

People can you please help me find out some causes and consequences of rupee appreciation. And also if you can help me find out its effect on Indian exports and imports. help me doing it'l help me for my presentation.

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Aqua Dots Recall?

Aurone @Aurone (4755) • United States 9 Nov 07

What will be recalled next, and how could they not know that the coating in a child's toy metabolized to GHB the date rape drug when swallowed? Aren't they supposed to test these toys for safety before selling them to our...

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Chinese Imports???

BlackBay @BlackBay (584) • Canada 16 Aug 07

With the recent Troubles and Recalls on Chinese imports of contaminated food, too much lead in the paint of childrens toys and baby bibs and the list goes on. What do you think your country should do? Put a complete ban on all...

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Problems from China?

jillmalitz @jillmalitz (5131) • United States 14 Jun 07

Lately it seems that more and more things are being recalled. The news networks are jumping all over the stories. From the additives found in petfood to lead in paint of popular children's toys to toothpaste. The latest toothpaste...

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China is taking another step toward food safety.

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 7 Jun 07

" Responding to growing international concerns about tainted food and counterfeit drugs, China said late Tuesday that it was overhauling its food and drug safety regulations and would introduce nationwide inspections." This is...

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China is finally trying to clean up it's act.

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 30 May 07

I am sure you all remember the problems with pet food being contaminated with melamine imported from China in wheat gluten and you may also remember the anitfreeze components that were exported from China as "glycerine" and used...

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First China Poisoned Our Pets, Now They Are Poisoning People

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 7 May 07

First, it was our pets that died because China has NO control over the products exported from their country. Now, people in several countries are being poisoned and are dying because China is exporting antifreeze (diethylene...

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