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A perfect storm for container shipping
The Economist ^ | Sep 16th 2021

Posted on 09/16/2021 8:55:16 AM PDT by george76

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To: PeterPrinciple; george76

> “With few alternatives to ships to move goods around, the only choice will be to move the factories that make them.”

> “last sentence”

Trump’s America First Plan coupled with substantial tax and assistance incentives placing America as the goto place to make things.


21 posted on 09/16/2021 9:18:43 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Reno89519; george76

We spent the last 40 years moving manufacturing to China, removing American skills and jobs, reordering society to services, software - and the government to woke politics and the welfare state. All of this was done on the back of cheap Federal Reserve money and cheap Chinese labor and a somewhat reforming Chinese CCP.

All of these things are now changing. China will continue to be an export powerhouse, but Xi Jinping has also begun changing their economic and political model drastically. We will spend the next 40 years readjusting those supply chains again. The US better get started now.


22 posted on 09/16/2021 9:21:28 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

They don’t need to have dirt on the Biden’s - they just need to pay them off.


23 posted on 09/16/2021 9:25:03 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: PMAS

Oh, they do sell American made furniture. Most of it but there are still some things that come from china.


24 posted on 09/16/2021 9:33:58 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: RatRipper

Why can’t our politicians move chip manufacturers to the US?


25 posted on 09/16/2021 9:43:29 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: george76

Build Back Better


26 posted on 09/16/2021 9:48:04 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: RatRipper

“Might cost more...”

The problem is that you can’t increase the base cost of goods at the same that you are devaluing your currency by inflating the money supply. That’s a recipe for disaster.


27 posted on 09/16/2021 10:11:01 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: george76

It’s so very frustrating to be unable to buy virtually “anything” not “Made in China.” The profit motive fits so strongly in this that it obscures the evil underlying it all.


28 posted on 09/16/2021 10:22:50 AM PDT by old school
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Time to defund China completely


29 posted on 09/16/2021 10:38:36 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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Why can’t our politicians move chip manufacturers to the US?

They have been bribed/corrupted to never put up import tariffs forcing industry to repatriate here..

30 posted on 09/16/2021 10:43:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: george76
The average cost of shipping a standard large container (a 40-foot-equivalent unit, or feu) has surpassed $10,000, some four times higher than a year ago (see chart). The spot price for sending such a box from Shanghai to New York, which in 2019 would have been around $2,500, is now nearer $15,000. Securing a late booking on the busiest route, from China to the west coast of America, could cost $20,000.

China talking about running a railroad to Alaska and down into the States doesn't seem as funny as it once did...

My crystal ball says 'inflation is in our future'....

31 posted on 09/16/2021 10:51:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire)
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To: PMAS

Actually, there are NOT that many American made furniture manufacturers anymore. Almost all the ones in NC moved to China.

There are still some upholstered furniture makers in MS, AR, WI but hardly any left in NC.


32 posted on 09/16/2021 11:12:30 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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