{"id":11195,"date":"2014-07-09T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11195"},"modified":"2014-07-09T08:13:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:13:55","slug":"lessons-about-international-trade-at-a-seaport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/lessons-about-international-trade-at-a-seaport\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons About International Trade At A Seaport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/070914_1204_LessonsAbou1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim Fernholz visited America&#8217;s busiest seaport and wrote about what he learnt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Instead of drugs or weapons, the biggest source of contraband goods entering the United States is actually fake designer clothing.<\/li>\n<li>The port&#8217;s number one export by volume is air \u2013 in the form of containers that go back empty since America imports far more than it exports.<\/li>\n<li>Recently however America has started filling the containers with trash which can be recycled cheaply in China. The port has a mega-shredder to tear up cars and other large items.<\/li>\n<li>Geopolitical concerns don&#8217;t matter as much. Evergreen, a Taiwanese company, has no qualms working with Chinese freight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article goes into much more depth and looks at a wider variety of the aspects of international trade. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/225745\/eight-lessons-you-can-learn-about-the-global-economy-by-visiting-americas-busiest-seaport\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/225745\/eight-lessons-you-can-learn-about-the-global-economy-by-visiting-americas-busiest-seaport\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Fernholz visited America&#8217;s busiest seaport and wrote about what he learnt: Instead of drugs or weapons, the biggest source of contraband goods entering the United States is actually fake designer clothing. The port&#8217;s number one export by volume is air \u2013 in the form of containers that go back empty since America imports far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/070914_1204_LessonsAbou1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11197,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions\/11197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}