Originally Posted by
chandi
1.) Artificially (using a tax, duty etc) raise the cost for foreign airlines are equivalent to QF. This would result in higher airfares. This is actually the case in the Australian book selling industry. And you can see the results of that where the same book in Australia is in most cases 30%-40% that of Amazon.
It's not the case in the Australian book industry...there is no additional duty on foreign books. The bookseller is in fact forced to sell the Australian published book if it is available within x days of publishing elsewhere. Otherwise they're free to sell the cheaper imported books.