Binnengrosshandel

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Identifikator:: 1794536604

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-186153

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Binnengrosshandel

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Beuth-Vertrieb GmbH

Year of publication:: [1960]

Scope:: 2, 46, 1 Blatt; Tab

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: 1. Auftrag und Auftragsdurchführung

Collection:: Economics Books

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND PROTECTION 191 And yet imports of articles of much the same kind — tools and machines — have continued; imports also of a variety of minor iron and steel products. These apparent exceptions, however, prove on closer examination not to run counter to the principle of comparative advantage ; rather they serve to confirm it. Thus, while the familiar sewing machine for domestic use is made in the United States more cheaply than in foreign countries, certain special machines — for embroideries and for factory work — continue to be imported. The explanation is that few of each special kind are wanted; the processes of manufacture cannot be standardized; the turning out of interchangeable parts by the thousand is not feasible. In making these handwork is called for in greater degree. Under such conditions the characteristic ad- vantage of the American producer disappears. Where ingeniously perfected machinery can be applied in large-scale operations, the American is likely to hold his own, but not where a handicraft skill is needed for a special article. Similarly, knitting machines have been both imported and exported. A circular automatic machine has been perfected in the United States, and is widely used for the commoner and cheaper grades of cotton knit goods; it is even exported. But a very elaborate German machine for knitting full-fashioned goods continued to be imported; because the fabrics for which it was ased were more expensive, smaller quantities were marketable, and hence fewer of the knitting machines were used. Made as the machines were in comparatively small quantities, they were turned out more cheaply in Germany, and most of them were imported.’ Some kinds of cutlery, again, are steadily imported; others are not imported at all. Pocket knives have been regularly brought in from England and from Germany ; and one of the extreme mani- festations of protectionist spirit during the period 1890-1922 was in the high and elaborate duties on this article. Table cutlery, on the other hand, is supplied by the domestic manufacturer without 1 T speak of the situation as it stood before 1914, and am not informed about the changes that may have taken place in later vears.

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