Re: 30% traiff on bikes im****ted into Canada now before cabinet

The fact that it applies to bikes 400$ or less is not a good thing at 
all. High end bikes tend to be bought by people with money, wearas cheap 
bikes are what I buy. Making it ridicullously expensive will not help 
one bit. I mean I would understand that if there would be nice cheap 
canadian bikes available... but there aren't. CCMs are decent but have a 
ton of marketting gimmicks on that are just useless. And Supercycles and 
the like are a joke (I mean chinese stuff is net superiour). 4 years ago 
I bought a steel framed (almost road dimentions) normal mtb (simmilar to 
the cop bikes) made by some "millenium" canadian company with ez fire 
****fters, etc etc.. for 200$ (unfortunately stolen soon thereafter). I 
loved that bike! All you can buy nowadays of canadian make are bikes 
with ridicullously thick tubing that adds to the weight for no reason, 
etc etc. Cop bikes rule!

So yea.. if you have 3 0's and a number other then 0 to head the string 
in fundings... for a bike... it doesnt mean that everyone does. It also 
doesnt imply that I like to ride crapy bikes.

mcsail wrote:
> 
> Today’s Ottawa Citizen (Sept 27) has another re****t
> about the Canadian International Trade Tribunal's (CITT)
> recommendation that the federal government impose a
> 30% tariff on bicycles im****ted from various offshore
> countries, including China.
> 
> The good news is that the proposed tariff would only
> apply to bikes with a retail value of $400 or less.
> In other words, high-end bikes have escaped the
> possibility of higher costs as a result of this
> CITT recommendation.
> 
> Nevertheless, Canadians are still paying lot of
> money because of tariffs on im****ted bikes. A press
> release by the Independent Bicycle Retailers of
> Canada on Newswire states that:
> 
>    "The proposed 30% surtax would be applied in
>     addition to two existing protections - a 13%
>     customs tariff that is applied to every bicycle
>     im****ted into Canada irrespective of origin
>     and special antidumping duties ranging from
>     5-50% that have been imposed on bicycles from
>     Taiwan and China for well over a decade."
> 
> Below are some additional sources of information.
>