The instability of transportation costs is a lot of why I don't whole heartedly embrace shipping off all of our production capacity to China, a la Aklim.

One of my clients are (married couple) personnel trainers. Every few months they get a huge pallet or two of dumb-bells, from 5 to 35 pounds usually, from China. Not knocking them, everyone does it now, but it just seems a bit weird to ship scrap ahrn to China and then ship it back as dumb-bells.

It looks like it works on paper, better cash flow for someone, but oil is being squandered for this bizarre arrangement.

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