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Too bad they didn’t switch to collapsible containers: https://www.shiplilly.com/blog/collapsible-shipping-containers-solving-issue-lopsided-trade/ https://www.s
by koolba 5y ago
Too bad they didn’t switch to collapsible containers: https://www.shiplilly.com/blog/collapsible-shipping-containers-solving-issue-lopsided-trade/ https://www.shiplilly.com/blog/collapsible-shipping-containe...
That would handle the trade imbalance by allowing more empties to fit on the way back.
Or the USA could actually make something worth shipping. But that’s probably a lot harder than replacing a worldwide fleet of existing non-collapsible containers.
- khuey 5y agoBoeing aircaft and college educations, which are probably the two largest US exports to China, don't fit in shipping containers.
- nradov 5y agoThe US exports a lot of agricultural commodities to China. Those used to all be shipped in bulkers but now some are loaded into containers.
- duped 5y agohttps://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peo... > The top export categories (2-digit HS) in 2019 were: electrical machinery ($14 billion); machinery ($13 billion); aircraft ($10 billion); optical and medical instruments ($9.7 billion); and vehicles ($9.1 billion).
- patentatt 5y agoLove the ingenuity, but isn’t needing to develop new technologies to overcome a severe trade imbalance just ignoring the larger problem of why there is such lopsided trade? It can’t be healthy or long-term sustainable for the US to basically stop manufacturing, can it?