It must be nice being a chud, because you can just be brain dead and never having to actually think. 
The most likely turn of events this describes:
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American businesses place an order and pay for it.
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Goods placed in container by seller.
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Buyer realizes tariffs make the order too expensive and tries to cancel it.
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Seller agrees to a partial refund.
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Seller believes return shipping will be more expense than it’s worth and says they don’t want it back.
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Ship does similar calculus and dumps it.
These aren’t temu or aliexpress orders going to consumers. Those get shipped by plane or from a local warehouse.
Thankfully I don’t think they’re just being dumped, just diverted
Well that’s good! There are actual low-value items (cheap plastic toys, for example) that aren’t worth shipping back to the seller but it’s not a bad outcome if they got resold on the cheap to a poorer country.
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Economic success is when shippers throw products that your citizens want into the ocean because it is more profitable than delivering them.
And here we have the ever common gundam nerd that watched the show and took away NONE of it’s message.
Of all the Gundam to
, they have a reference to Turn A, too, lmao.media literacy of a bag of rocks…
Anaheim Electronics were the good guys right?
Our soil isn’t cleaner. We’re actively gutting environmental protections because low lead-blood levels are “woke”.
trees are gay. oil is the antidote to the woke mind virus. complaining about it your ever slipping standard of living is also gay. real men tip their landlords and thank them for the opportunity
But not seed oil
Oil made from dinosaurs who ate seeds and fossilised seeds is good tho
Lead in the blood is how boomers reproduce
If enough lead congeals in one place a boomer is born
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I go away for a few hours, and this is what I come back to.
FRESH SLOP, PIGGIES
smug lib: that’s not socialism, there’s a market!
Question:
What is the word you would use to describe the economic environment that exclusively worker co-ops would be competing in?
Answer:
???
You can’t run away from basic questions about your political beliefs forever
!!
“Communism bad”? - no iPhone
No, money down!
This line is so ironic right now, that’s just too comical.
"Communism, no iPhone’ meme is ending with the Trump admin.
Lol their gundam toys will explode in price as well
getting flashbacks to when “throw your car battery into the ocean” was a meme around here
?? how else are the eels supposed to get electricity
had to look it up to figure out what the meant by ‘ditching shipments mid voyage’
A staff member at a China-listed export company, who requested anonymity, said its US-bound container volume had plummeted from 40 to 50 containers a day to just three to six as a result of the new tariffs on Chinese imports imposed by the second Trump administration. It has increased tariffs by 104 per cent this year, taking the total impost to around 115 per cent. The new tariffs have triggered a backlash from Beijing and sent shock waves through global markets.
“We’ve halted all shipping plans from the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia,” the employee said. “Every factory order is halted. Anything that hasn’t been loaded will be scrapped, and the cargo already at sea is being re-costed.”
One client had told the company it was
abandoning goods already on the water and giving them to the shipping company[emphasis mine], as “no one will buy them after the tariffs are imposed”Member how there was a 6 month+ lead time on industrial sized switchgear during covid that delayed numerous manufacturing projects? Imagine that but 100x worse and for years on end.
I distinctly remember industrial switchgears being so limited that brokering an entire 53’ semi truck to exclusively load up one (1) switchgear and haul ass across the entire country just for that one piece was not even given a second thought - it was obvious to do, something that would have been insane 5 years prior.
It didn’t matter how much money we offered, the switchgears simply did not exist to sell. Delayed that project for almost a year.
I hope our Chinese comrades look forward to their futures. I will be going down with the ship in the imperial core.
It didn’t matter how much money we offered, the switchgears simply did not exist to sell. Delayed that project for almost a year.
Even Victoria players know you don’t tariff essential imports.
Honestly I’m getting sick of this cold war 2 shit, it’s all so fucking tiring
Alternative is hot war 3 tbf
It feels unavoidable at this rate. Obviously not stopping me from activism, but I feel like an early heartattack is in my future.
I got my dinghy and a pool skimmer. Heading out to the pacific to scoop up some free slightly wet treats!
Northrop Gundam for all neoclassical architecture sword austerity? This person cannot make sense for the life of them.
The cintainer ships now full of ditched containers, what are they gonna do with them?
my treats, no, you can’t!
Full text
Amid escalating trade tensions between China and the United States, some Chinese exporters are taking the drastic step of ditching shipments mid-voyage and surrendering containers to shipping companies to avoid crushing tariff costs.
Industry insiders have dubbed the move “preparing for the Long March”, a grim metaphor for what many see as a prolonged and punishing downturn in cross-Pacific trade.
A staff member at a China-listed export company, who requested anonymity, said its US-bound container volume had plummeted from 40 to 50 containers a day to just three to six as a result of the new tariffs on Chinese imports imposed by the second Trump administration. It has increased tariffs by 104 per cent this year, taking the total impost to around 115 per cent.
The new tariffs have triggered a backlash from Beijing and sent shock waves through global markets.
“We’ve halted all shipping plans from the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia,” the employee said. “Every factory order is halted. Anything that hasn’t been loaded will be scrapped, and the cargo already at sea is being re-costed.”
One client had told the company it was abandoning goods already on the water and giving them to the shipping company, as “no one will buy them after the tariffs are imposed”.
The company’s leadership had returned to China to manage a flood of order cancellations and had instructed its staff to suspend all container business until tariffs stabilise or alternative markets are secured.
“The loss on every container we ship is now greater than the profit we used to make from shipping two,” the employee said. “Who’s going to keep doing this?
“We’re mentally preparing for the worst. There won’t be any recovery in the short term – probably not until the middle of next year.”
The company has now begun shifting its focus to Europe and Japan, seeking safer waters amid the trade storm.
China, the world’s largest exporter, was the second-biggest source of US imports last year, sending US$439 billion worth of goods to America. US exports to China were worth just $144 billion.
With the escalating US-China tariff war already taking a heavy toll on Asian exporters, many American buyers are pulling out amid fears of soaring costs, prompting order cancellations said to be totalling as many as 300 containers a day for some manufacturers.
Facing steep new levies and an uncertain market, exporters are also scaling back operations. Factories have been reported to be cutting working hours and to have asked employees to take fewer shifts. The anonymous staff member at the China-listed firm said its US branch had begun laying off frontline workers as demand collapses.
Industry experts warned that shippers face a lose-lose situation, as shipping now could mean absorbing steep tariffs if they are not lifted, but waiting could expose them to even higher rates if tensions continue to rise.
