Restrictions on imported foods and human rights

[AlexanderB]

Argentine industry is lacking in a lot of areas... especially when it comes to electronics and appliances - not to mention surgical equipment and drugs. It's not easy to simply "produce locally"... you'll find you either lack the quality raw ingredients or the machinery to do it.

That's what I don't understand about these import restrictions; they seem to be born of the presumption that Argentina has domestically substitutable industry for imports. But Argentina doesn't make iPads, and it won't! The production of most non-trivial electronics and appliances is dependent on an array of globally specialised supply chains and carefully cultivated competitive advantage. It's not as if those can just be dropped in, forklifted, or "stimulated" into existence in Argentina, if only it weren't for the price competition factor!

 

[steveinbsas]

Whatever gave you the idea that the power mongers (the Obamas and the Kirchners) of the world have a clue about the creation of anything (including wealth)?

They can only confiscate and redistribute (mostly to themselves and those who vote for them) the wealth which has been created by others.

 

[Napoleon]

Whatever gave you the idea that the power mongers (the Obamas and the Kirchners) of the world had a clue about the creation of anything (including wealth)?

They can only confiscate and redistribute (mostly to themselves and those who vote for them) the wealth which has been created by others.

Dick Cheney confiscated and redistributed to his friends (and himself) like no one in US history. I think that Obama is a step in the right direction. Hopefully the next US president will continue the steps away from Cheney.

Argentina's issues are steps in the wrong direction. The voters need to demand that elected officials reverse course for starters and then look at improvement from there.

 

[gusgutier]

That's what I don't understand about these import restrictions; they seem to be born of the presumption that Argentina has domestically substitutable industry for imports. But Argentina doesn't make iPads, and it won't! The production of most non-trivial electronics and appliances is dependent on an array of globally specialised supply chains and carefully cultivated competitive advantage. It's not as if those can just be dropped in, forklifted, or "stimulated" into existence in Argentina, if only it weren't for the price competition factor!

http://www.cronista.com/negocios/RC...ablets-en-Tierra-del-Fuego-20111028-0068.html

 

[TomAtAlki]

Here I have to order Damemani from the company direct (no stock in my barrio), bacon from the bacon guy, tortillas from Pancho Villa, I don't have time to source anything else like matzo, it was just an example anyway. No tofu or soy milk in my area, not so worried about myself, but my kids. The 3 year old loses weight here as he gets tired of pasta and cheese sandwiches. In my barrio, there's not even a frozen pizza! No, I don't have time to cook 3 meals from scratch, though I often have to...

Well if your looking for bacon, motza' s probably not a real big issue. Any way it is at Disco.
Nancy

 

[CarverFan]

Ha, ha, Nancy... I'm vegetarian, the bacon is for my non-jewish partner. But my father was brought up orthodox and he ate bacon as well as matzo. Many do.

 

[AlexanderB]

http://www.cronista.com/negocios/RC...ablets-en-Tierra-del-Fuego-20111028-0068.html

Yeah, I hear you. I'm not saying that nobody will venture to manufacture anything in Argentina as a result of this pressure; nothing is ever 100%. But to think that in the long run, Argentina is in a position to replace the mounds of cheap Chinese electronics that the entire world imports with domestically assembled substitutes, strikes me as pretty ridiculous.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

Yeah, I hear you. I'm not saying that nobody will venture to manufacture anything in Argentina as a result of this pressure; nothing is ever 100%. But to think that in the long run, Argentina is in a position to replace the mounds of cheap Chinese electronics that the entire world imports with domestically assembled substitutes, strikes me as pretty ridiculous.

But historically, in other nations, that is exactly what has happened. It's technology, Jim, but not as we know it. Remember Soviet-era electronics, still using thermionic tubes while the rest of the world had moved on to transistors? (Example: MiG-25 aircraft, mach 2.8 or even mach 3.2 at a push and still using thermionic valves for the avionics.) Remember South Africa and SASOL? Nations, like SA in isolation, simply find another way.

 

[AlexanderB]

But historically, in other nations, that is exactly what has happened. It's technology, Jim, but not as we know it. Remember Soviet-era electronics, still using thermionic tubes while the rest of the world had moved on to transistors? (Example: MiG-25 aircraft, mach 2.8 or even mach 3.2 at a push and still using thermionic valves for the avionics.) Remember South Africa and SASOL? Nations, like SA in isolation, simply find another way.

Oh, I know. I'm from the Soviet Union. I still had a record player when I was a little boy, long after my American counterparts started moving onto CDs.

 

[dennisr]

The only thing this import embargo and "made in Argentina" BS is accomplishing is lining the pockets of a few electronic assemblers in Terra del Fuego who enjoy a tax advantage over the rest of the country. The argentine people are having to settle for second rate goods at astronomical prices.

http://negocios.iprofesional.com/no...argentinos-deben-optar-por-equipos-nacionales

http://translate.google.com/transla...odore&hl=en&nota=1&biw=981&bih=618&prmd=imvns