forsaken jobs, give us invisible pallets

forsaken jobs, give us invisible pallets

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Edward w Pritchard


As more and more American manufacturing jobs are lost to China lost somewhere along with the workers themselves who once worked in manufacturing at American factories are the support staff jobs, assorted hard goods items, and the lost inventory of wood, paper and metal products that will not exist because of shrinking employment in American manufacturing.

We in the pallet industry are hard hit by this trend. Meanwhile as America loses factory and manufacturing jobs America imports more and more goods from China. China keeps exporting more and more items to America in part because of informal Chinese Government subsidies to Chinese business. The Chinese government routinely implements policies designed to keep the Yuan weak against the dollar.

Chinese Government subsidy of exports is against International trade agreements and hurts American workers.

As a partial resolution to the problem of lost American manufacturing jobs we representing the pallet industry request Congress to enact legislation requiring that for each shipload of goods exported from China to America one double stack of invisible pallets be required to be purchased by China to be used when the ship is unloaded in America. We in the pallet industry in America will sell the invisible pallets to China at a competitive rate.

Once the issue with the forsaken manufacturing jobs is resolved we also suggest that to solve the problem of missing shoppers at American malls and box stores caused by Internet sales of goods each American company selling primarily by Internet be required to purchase invisible pallets to hold delivered goods that are shipped by fed ex or like services from Internet sellers to American consumers.

We in the pallet industry trade association can provide specification on pricing and the environmental impact caused by manufacturing invisible pallets to Congress when requested through the appropriate departments of government.

Solving the problem of lost American manufacturing jobs to China and lost retail sales at malls and large box stores is easy. Forsaken American jobs, give us invisible pallets as a solution.

Catalogues with information and specifications on invisible pallets is available on the Pallet Association web site.