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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>Tariffs
are higher on women's underwear than men's.</span></font></b><font
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font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><span align=left><b><font size=2 color="#003399" face="Trebuchet MS"><span
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font-weight:bold'>THE NUMBERS: Tariffs on underwear:</span></font></b><font
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font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>SILK</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>1.1%</span></font></b></strong><font
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size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>15.6%</span></font></b></strong><font
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font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>7.4%</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>14.9%</span></font></b></strong><font
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<p><span align=left><b><font size=2 color="#003399" face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#003399;
font-weight:bold'>WHAT THEY MEAN:</span></span></font></b><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Sensational, crowd-pleasing
scandal? At first glance, intimate-apparel tariffs reveal a startling
tilt against women and girls. Women's silks and cottons get tariff tax
rate 0.2 percent higher than men's, and the premium is 0.7 percent on
women's polyesters. No such tilt appears in the tariff systems of other
big trading economies, including the European Union, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:place>..
Overall, lingerie tariffs brought in about $400 million last year -- in
the $21 billion tariff system, about two cents in each tariff dollar --
while men's underwear raised a token $40 million. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>But a closer look finds
that the apparent misogyny of American underwear tariffing is an anomaly
rather than a pattern. Men's and women's shirts are taxed equally: men
and women alike face an 0.9 percent tariff on silk shirts, 19.7 percent
for cotton, and 32 percent for polyester. Same goes for leather jackets
and pants. In bathing suits the pattern reverses, with higher tariffs for
men and boys. Overall, the tariff system has no clear pro-man or
pro-woman pattern.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>The real tilt is in favor
of wealthy shoppers and against low-income families. In total, clothing
tariffs raised $8.3 billion last year, and shoes $1.7 billion; by
contrast, cars raised only $1.2 billion, oil and gasoline $210 million,
gems and jewelry $182 million and steel $50 million. Any tax which raises
most of its money from shoes and clothes will hit poor people harder than
others. And the tariff system is especially regressive, since - in
underwear and virtually all consumer goods, from plates and spoons to
luggage, shirts and shoes -- its rates are highest on cheap and simple
products like the polyester briefs, and lowest on exotic luxuries like
the silks. Some more data to go with the underwear: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:black'>PRODUCT</span></font></b></strong><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Sweater<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Cashmere</span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> 4.0%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Wool 17.0%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Acrylic 32%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Brassiere<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>---<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Polyester 16.9%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Shoes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Leather Dress 8.5%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Elite Running Shoe 20%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Sneaker, Under $3 48%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Sterling 3.3%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Silver-plated 4.2%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Stainless Steel 14%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Snakeskin 5.3%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Leather 10%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Canvas 16%<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>The bias has grown rather
than narrowing in the last 20 years. Here again the case of
underwear is typical. Tariffs on silks were the same as tariffs on polyesters
until the mid-1990s. The 1994 Uruguay Round agreement that created the
WTO cut the silk rates down to very low levels -- happy belated
Valentine's Day, lovers -- but taxation of imported cottons and
polyesters remained high. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span align=left><b><font size=2
color="#003399" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#003399;font-weight:bold'>FURTHER <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">READING</st1:City></st1:place>: </span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'></span>Comparing the
tariff system to the four other main federal taxes -- income, payroll,
excise and estate -- the DLC's Ed Gresser finds it the only one to tax
low-income families at higher rates than middle-class and wealthy
families: <a
href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103082977301&s=38031&e=001FT1W-pP93Lytiz1kmzq1vAjccD5CmlkCGdnK4y1KHeom4BuALL0dEzLDNIqfM7-1QaYlwecQMkdV5lLv9IvwlNfHMuJE-Up7ACMzNVCAVUhi5FEP8mdSNpBitAabv4eAb2V6D-9CiN15NW6WRx48yGDJEO76imDmueweh-EoWksD3bBEslrD2qC5utCz4Pfu"
target="_blank" shape=rect>http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=108&subid=900010&contentid=250828</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>The tariff schedule: <a
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