Tom:

The sad thing here is that we (Americans) don't own the containers, the
ships which hauled them, and no longer control the ports at which these
goods enter this country since Clinton gave away Long Beach to the Chinese.


"Tom Watson" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:13:08 -0600, "Greg O"
wrote:

Then can you imagine shipping containers of bricks from overseas, and
getting them here cheaper than they can be made down the road a piece!
You
would think that freight would kill the price differance.
Greg


A twenty foot shipping container, which is more or less 20' x 8' x 8'
and is rated for 35,000 pounds costs about $4000.00 to ship from
Shanghai to a West Coast port.

Now, can you imagine how much cheaper the goods must be in order to
make shipping them cost effective?


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