[lbo-talk] Japan industrial development and tariffs

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:23 PM, michael perelman
<michael.perelman3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The article is correct.  Chang's Bad Samaritans gives a nice survey of
> the idea.  Japan was particularly adept at creating regulations that
> potential exporters could not meet.

Thanks Michael, I will dive into that book. Thanks for the heads up.

Sounds like Argentina´s "electrical safety" regulations for home
appliances and electronics (a testing and approval stamp like UL) that
requires importers to submit a ton of units for testing -I don´t
remember the number but it was like 240 units of every model you want
to import-, -which are not returned to the importer and destroyed
after succesful testing-.

That stopped the grey market imports of VCRs first, and TVs and DVD
players later. And so the only ones that can comply with the
regulations are the big brands (the Sonys, the Samsungs, the Philips
of the World) and no small shop can mass-import units from other
markets without the additional cost of electrical safety testing and
certification.

FC