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**dumadegg** · 09-10-2010, 01:32 PM

because local industry learns how to compete and ends up with a long term sustainable business. see the problems in the DR now with the artificially low propane pricing due to government subsidy and the industry that built up around modifying cars to take advantage of it.

haiti has to find industries where it can have a true competitive advantage (aside from being the NGO capital of the world). yes, they do exist.

which local industry? cutting import tariffs means cheap foreign goods will flood the market, which, at least as far as agricultural products go, are often times themselves subsidized. it is not as if they were producing crappy tv's and jeans like they did in mexico under isi which are artificially protected from better competition by import taxes. cutting import tariffs in haiti will only increase poverty.
also don't act as if haitians (poor haitians at least) were playing the victim while in reality being the masters of their own destiny. they have a corrupt elite and a messed up political system, and that is to no small part due to outside powers meddling and cooperating with said corrupt elite. they are screwed and there is not much they can do about it except migrate

09-10-2010, 01:32 PM	#12
dumadegg Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 381 Senior Member	because local industry learns how to compete and ends up with a long term sustainable business. see the problems in the DR now with the artificially low propane pricing due to government subsidy and the industry that built up around modifying cars to take advantage of it. haiti has to find industries where it can have a true competitive advantage (aside from being the NGO capital of the world). yes, they do exist. which local industry? cutting import tariffs means cheap foreign goods will flood the market, which, at least as far as agricultural products go, are often times themselves subsidized. it is not as if they were producing crappy tv's and jeans like they did in mexico under isi which are artificially protected from better competition by import taxes. cutting import tariffs in haiti will only increase poverty. also don't act as if haitians (poor haitians at least) were playing the victim while in reality being the masters of their own destiny. they have a corrupt elite and a messed up political system, and that is to no small part due to outside powers meddling and cooperating with said corrupt elite. they are screwed and there is not much they can do about it except migrate
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