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Bad for the environment as well for trans-pacific shipping to be cheaper
Aren't ocean vessels one of the most efficient forms of transportation in existence?
If the Trump administration had just opened with this, I think we might have saved ourselves a lot of stock market turbulence with tariff pissing contests. U. S. sellers start in the hole by the fact that they can't even compete on shipping prices with Chinese companies. It reminds me of the Shell gas station owner I worked for many decades ago who complained that the local drugstore could sell quarts of oil cheaper…
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Does this mean lower government spending? Kind of blows my mind the government gets tax money and private people get the benefits.
Huh? I'm not sure what this has to do with taxes or government spending. The USPS doesn't get tax money; it's financed by its customers, like any other business, it just happens to be wholly owned by the federal government. Postal rates are high because they're forced by the UPU agreement to deliver Chinese mail for almost nothing, so they pass the costs on to US customers.
This is one way to mitigate knock off products from China. If the shipping costs come up to the norm, they won't always (if ever) be the cheapest product so the real one will win out more often. Various products will have different tipping points where it just doesn't make sense to ship and/or they aren't getting enough sales to justify it. Personally, I like it and it seems like everyone wins.. except people who und…
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Bad for the environment as well for trans-pacific shipping to be cheaper
Aren't ocean vessels one of the most efficient forms of transportation in existence?
I was wondering how Wish.com made money...
This actually sounds like a good thing. It costs Chinese shippers almost nothing to send stuff directly from China, while it costs me quite a lot to send stuff within the US, largely because I'm subsidizing all the Chinese shippers. Moreover, for me to send any parcel (even very small ones, like 2 oz.) outside the US costs a small fortune these days, again because I'm subsidizing the Chinese shippers.
if this is fallout from the trade issues it honestly is the only good outcome of them
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...