From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 25 2001 - 23:36:17 MST
At 01:52 AM 12/26/01 -0400, RR wrote:
>Sounds like importing from Australia might be a good business to get into.
Not with cars. Like the Brits we drive on the left, so the gadgets are on
the other side. When I'm in the States my passenger reflexes always make me
try to climb into the driver's seat, most humiliating.
And I imagine there'd be import tariffs, no? As there were for a long
time--I gather they've eased lately, or will soon--on the import into the
States of yummy abundant Aussie lamb. Visitors here tend to fall down in a
dead faint when they see the prices in the butcher's shop, then go nuts
with the credit card...
But books here are expensive, since mostly they have to be shipped or flown
in across the Pacific, at twice the cover price because of the exchange
rate; those made locally are even more expensive, due to the tiny local
population base (even though our per capita consumption of books is notably
higher than in the land of the free).
Damien Broderick
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