User talk:MSmitka

• Checking a date against a student paper, found no ref to 1934 Reciprocal Trade Adjustment Act that enabled reversal of S-H tariffs. Inserted with cross-refs to relevant Wiki for RTAA and ITO.

• Also found Japan examples of post-WWII tariffs too narrow in context of article. Edited to indicate Europe similar and to insert foreign exchange controls as another alternative to tariffs.

• Did not check where in Wiki there might be links for Europe and so on. The ECSC would be an example, and Article VIII of the IMF and the Marshall Plan in the context of dollar shortage. But all of that gets pretty far from S-H and belongs in a general discussion of trade policy and the evolution of the post-war international framework. The cross-links in the entry strike me as already sufficient for someone who wants to follow up on issues beyond S-H itself.

• Deleted the dumping claim as not pertinent to S-H.

= Re-read a couple times, editing as I went, but awkward prose likely remains.

= As background, I'm an economist who specializes in Japan and on the auto industry, and know the English and Japanese literature well. At some point I'll check Japan-specific entries to see if I can beef them up or add some new ones. Ditto the auto industry -- lots of enthusiast stuff, but that leaves holes in business history. I assume "dumping" and related entries are already pretty thorough.

MSmitka (talk) 18:39, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
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