Congressman Blumenauer aims to suspend import duties on bicycle parts

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He could be on to something.

Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore) introduced a series of ten bills this week that look to temporarily suspend the import duties on bicycle parts needed by American manufacturers that are not produced in the United States.

…Blumenauer says, “Bicycles provide important, environmentally friendly transportation alternatives, and I am happy to do my part to make them more accessible and affordable.”

By waiving tariffs on parts that are not produced in the U.S., he claims, “we do a service to American bike manufacturers and riders.”

Read more: bikeportland.org

I’ll tell you this much – I’ve seen the price of just about everything in the bike industry start rising of late. And that’s going to hurt us all at the cash register.

About big jonny

The man, the legend. The guy who started it all back in the Year of Our Lord Beer, 2000, with a couple of pages worth of idiotic ranting hardcoded on some random porn site that would host anything you uploaded, a book called HTML for Dummies (which was completely appropriate), a bad attitude (which hasn’t much changed), and a Dell desktop running Win95 with 64 mgs of ram and a six gig hard drive. Those were the days. Then he went to law school. Go figure. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

One Reply to “Congressman Blumenauer aims to suspend import duties on bicycle parts”

  1. “To extend the temporary suspension of duty on…”

    Most of the bills say that.

    So if most of these import duties are already in place, especially the one regarding steel tubing, why is that one guy Tony Pereira saying that this “.. is a long overdue move” ??

    I be confused.