Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic | CNN Business
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On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t happened since the pandemic.
  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    It’s about to get real in the US. What’s the over/under on the day panic buying starts?

    • satanmat@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      Anyone who is paying attention has already started…

      Fortunately, most day to day needs are not shipped from china; TP and foodstuffs. But the darkest part of this is the knock on effects-- tech; hard drives, phones and devices; toys and consumer goods

      If they are not being shipped, they don’t need longshoremen to unload-- they don’t need truckers to get them to distribution centers- they don’t need people to work in the stores. And when all those people lose hours or jobs; they can’t spend money at other stores or restaurants…

      The USA is a goods and services economy and when you gut goods; no one can afford any services.

      We rely on trade and the President has such a bass awkward understanding of economics and is so dogmatic in his refusal to listen

      Yeah we’re fucked.

      Anyone in Norway want to adopt me?