What trade wars? Nothing in news here other than Bill O'Reilly and French
Wine.(pricing still has not fallen).

Remember that since we produce virtually nothing here in USA trade wars have
little effect here. Computer parts even of American Companies are made
mostly in Asia and China. Boycott all you want.

I drive a Ford Expedition half the parts are from Canada and Japan. My wife
drives a Mercedes. More of it is proabably of USA parts than my Ford. Go
figure.

What trade wars are you refering to?


"Ian Hoare" wrote in message
...
Salut/Hi Leo Bueno,

le/on Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:32:20 GMT, tu disais/you said:-


I remember a couple of decades ago that many California wines (bulk
and cheap ones come to mind) were labeled as "Chablis", "Burgundy",
"Beaujolais" or "Gamay Beaujolais", etc.

This practice has stopped, I suspect in part due to political pressure
from France (yes, the same folk who were annoyed by "Goats Do Roam").

I think your language is a little tendentious here. International trade,
it
seems to me needs some kind of mutual respect and discipline. It's not
just
France which dislikes wine region names being used as if they were
descriptive of a type of wine. Portugal, takes a dim view of "Port" and
Madeira being treated in that way, Spain with Sherry.

Trade goes both ways, if the USA wants to export to Europe (and I'm not
talking about exporting "Burgandy" or Chablees", but computer parts and
programs), then it should take part in the GATT talks and respect their
findings. Perhaps I'm wrong, and I most sincerely hope I am, but I
sometimes
get the feeling that some Americans think that USA companies should be
able
to do whatever they want in international trade, because they are bigger
and
better armed than their partners. At the moment, we're in the middle of
quite a serious trade war between Europe and the USA, though it may be
that
your newspapers and TV news reports have failed to tell you about it.
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