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European Commission To Raise Camera Costs in Europe

Posted by Zonk on from the maybe-they-should-start-making-cameras dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a recent CNET article, digital camera costs could increase in Europe as result of trade inequalities. 'At the moment, all digital cameras are manufactured outside Europe. They're all imported. All of them. Currently, there's a European Commission-imposed 4.9 per cent import tariff on camcorders, but not on cameras, whatever their video-recording abilities. The EC's Nomenclature Committee has cottoned on to this and wants to slap a tax on cameras that can record at least 30 minutes of video in one go, with a resolution of 800x600 pixels or higher at 23 frames per second or higher. The Nomenclature Committee has recommended the proposal but has not, as yet, garnered the required majority vote.'" Update: 07/23 02:18 GMT by Z : Took out a bit of hyperbole.

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  1. Examples of Idiocy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Examples of Idiocy: How /. has become.

    Articles like this and this are the reason slashdot is no longer taken seriously. Please read the rest of the article here.

    An articles devoted to Zonk.

  2. Re:tax = bad by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Troll
    "Sure, they are required to pay for things we couldn't be trusted to pay for ourselfs like police and the military"

    learn to read fuckwit. as i stated, taxes ARE REQUIRED for some things, but protecting businessmen from their failing companys is not one of them.

    "(because I'm assuming that you're an American)"

    You try call me out on posting unsupported views, but make one HELL of an assumption on your own, which is incorrect as a matter of fact. You reckon you could hunt me down and kill me, but your too spineless to post has yourself? fucking pussy.

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  3. Re:your logic = bad by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Troll
    haha, thank you, finally someone with a clue.

    i've been trying to explain to these retards, but i guess it's a wasted effort.

    i'm so sick of this stupid "omg multinationals are the evilz" attitude.

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  4. Re:Why have a tariff if... by Ex-MislTech · · Score: -1, Troll

    there is no domestic European camera industry to protect? As they say in the article, all the cameras are manufactured outside Europe. The purpose of tariff barriers is to protect domestic industry (or so I thought).

    Now you are starting to understand it is socialism in the EU, a few more really bad laws like this
    and full perception of what is to come will dawn on most of the ppl in the EU.

    The Soiet Union didn't lose, it just waited and changed its tactics.

    It looks like they are working too.

    "Can I get a side order of polonium with that ?"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_ poisoning

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