Re:Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong
by ryanmercer on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:31PM
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>However, the goods with the highest carbon footprint (concrete, steel) don't really have a "looks like it was made in russia" sort of badge that couldn't be easily removed/replaced.
Yeah, except people have tried to do this with aluminum by bringing it through Mexico and it doesnt' really work. This is partly why say 8517700000 from Vietnam like in my example is potentially subject to anti-dumping as if it were from China.
https://fortune.com/2016/09/09/chinese-aluminum-giant-is-tie...
Sure, it works for some handbags or sunglasses, even a few cargo containers of product, but any meaningful amount and forget about it.
Take food as an example. With the recent china soybean tariffs the way that some manufactures got around it was first shipping the goods to Thailand.
From there it is either processed or re-exported.
https://www.scbeic.com/th/detail/product/4730
So long as the middleman country/countries have lax regulations and the actors aren't pushing heavily on them, then goods can flow (all be it at increased cost due to additional shipping/repackaging).