Map of cargo ships waiting to be unloaded; is this Q’s “watch the water “
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It could be a strategy against China. But if all ports are like this, then who is controlling? Who has the legal authority to shut down the world’s shipping industry? Who under admiralty law? Under shipping law?
If the United States needed to create a corporation to do commerce with the world back in 1871 and that corporation is bankrupt & defunct how does the US do commerce now? If a cargo is unloaded in a California port is California charged for all the goods?
Great questions. I hope someone can find the answer
Friend of mine works for a company that does all the fee calculations for FedEx shipping international. It is a very complicated formula because it is based upon a number of variables and it changes from year to year as every country publishes their book once a year as trade agreements change, etc. (Although she is primarily working with air freight, she got her broker's license a couple of years ago which is one of the more difficult licenses to obtain: only something like 20% pass on the first try, but with it she could work for the ports if she decided she wanted to leave her current position.) As I understand it, each country publishes their tarrifs every year and it is all broken down by item. This is the cost for pencils, this is the cost for napkins. This is the cost to ship napkins from point A to point B vs. point C. The ports have a fee system in place that are specific to each port. Fees for being early fees for being late, fees to store, fees to offload certain items. Fees for it being busy time of year.
She has commented that even though she has had to decipher some counties where it is not published in English, some of those are easier to interpret than the US version.
This is a good memory jogger for me. The first time I learned about this convoluted import fee arrangement was years ago when semen toys were claimed to be "non-human" because human toys were assessed at a more expensive rate. It made the news because "mutants aren't human" was the actual point of the fictional story and in shipping they officially weren't.
I add nothing, but you reminded me of something silly.
I read China doesn't get paid until after ships are unloaded, so yes - could be.
Even more hilariously, they pay fees for having cargo sitting on the boats in the water and having cargo sitting in the ports.
Ship nothing Chinese. Let them all rot in the ports!
Perhaps Trump taking the reins?