Very good explanation here.
Peter St Onge- Post Office Drops 80%
One Chinese seller estimated to give them a 30% cost advantage. In fact, until recently, you could literally ship from Shanghai to Chicago cheaper than you could ship from Milwaukee to Chicago.
The corruption is all-encompassing. Whenever you hear things like this, you start to understand -why- Sherwood makes their hockey sticks in China instead of Quebec and Ontario, or even Michigan. You can’t beat a 30% cost advantage.
Now do Canada. We can’t even make pickles here. And stuff like this is the reason why.
Dirty little secret. Chinese fly-by-night pharmaceutical companies (aka drug labs) produce different variations on Fentanyl and various opioids and sent them via priority/regular mail to the US and Canada. AND, it was perfectly legal. The way they handled it is by establishing different names in China. If a certain Opioid was banned, they’d make an esoteric change to the drug, name it something else, and send through the mail once again.
The US eventually took steps to stop this practice with the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act. But, it still continues to this day. It’s one of more nefarious problems with the Dark Web. Customer base is online and anonymous. The “labs” in China use false addresses, and let’s face it, China isn’t going to let the US go snooping around in China to round up the perpetrators (mainly because it’s sanctioned by the Chinese government and purposeful). Most of the listed addresses for these drug companies are vacant shopping center locations.
It appears as though the Trump Admin. continues to be over the target. How many years has America absently sleepwalked our governance? America has been getting LOOTED!! By everyone and everything and in every way.
Yeah, I voted for this.
Bring manufacturing back to America. Most people are recommending that our youth pivot toward “the trades” … in lieu of useless college degrees and AI-capable tech jobs … well manufacturing is a “trade” as well. Let’s start making a lot more STUFF here than halfway across the planet. That would be much more carbon neutral … right?