Tariff Changes??

[Riverkilt]

Driving home from Tucson yesterday kept hearing on the radio something about Bush ticking off the World Trade Organization and they finally retailiating with increased tariffs on textiles shipped from the U.S.

Wondering if their are any economists out there who would know if this meant just the cloth or included finished goods?

Wondering what effect this will have on kilted brothers outside the U.S. who order non-traditional kilts from U.S. vendors?

Been reading how rough some of their own countries tariffs are, does this mean they'll be a lot worse?

Don't know what percent of non-traditional kilt sales from U.S. vendors go overseas...but surely, this political insanity can't help their sales and the spread of kilt addiction outside the U.S.

Ron

[mcnice]

i had to pay for my UK 34 euros just for taxes, about 20 dollars for shipping. what makes more than a third of the originals UK price...
i have to find somebody to send me the stuff in private, cause a few orders from US and i coudl get a new kilt...

[wolfgang]

Expensive shipping costs and import taxes are the main reasons which detain me from buying outside the European Union.

The other reason which detains me from buying outside Germany is the need of a credit card. In germany it is customary to order at a mail-order house cash on delivery, debit note or on account. Smaler mail-order shops sometimes need cash before delivery on credit transfer. There is no need for a costly Credit Card in Germany and I don't like the idea of paying money for money.

At last Britain is in the European Union and traditional kilts are available even in Germany.

[Tim Walker]

The popularization of kilts in North America has seen the appearance of new companies. Perhaps new kiltmakers will appear in Germany and other countries?

[mcnice]

what kiltmakers you have in germany?
the only i know in austria is

http://members.aon.at/rettl/indexkaro.htm

clicking on "herren", the offer a heavy silver buckled kilt for 750 euro...

[Magnus Sporrano]

Hear that?

It's opportunity knocking. Let her in.

[Riverkilt]

Sounds like it could be a big break for the Welsh guys at UnionKilts.

[mcnice]

they translated an article about the rettl kilt. it s a translation from german perhaps a year old.
and the rettl with its price is not the thing austrians, at least a beginner would buy ;)

[mcnice]

extract from the article:

"Tartan kilts have become fashionable in Austria after archaeologists claimed the country invented them. Many Austrian stores are now selling "traditional Austrian" kilts and sporrans as well as lederhosen.

The Austrian claim is based on the discovery of what they claim is the oldest piece of tartan in the world. . .

Thomas Rettl, whose clothing company is based close to where scraps from the original Celtic kilt were found, said: "Ever since we found out that Austria was the true home to tartan we have been doing a roaring trade. It was found not in Scotland but in a place called Molzbichl in Carinthia in Austria"





i didn t found a single shop here selling kilts.
i think the claim to have the oldest tartan is an exagereted marketing gag, that puts an image to austria outside of us i don t want even think about, as tartans and similar patterns existed whereever celts had been. but to claim it like that... it s a sometimes really astonishing country...
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[Tim Walker]

Appears similar to Utilikilts. I looked at the guestbook-apparently these garments are being sold to customers in different parts of Britain.
Interesting information about the Austrian kilts.

UnionKilts.