Matt Cartwright: “So we have all been seeing these images of 75, 80 cargo ships off the coast of California, Long Beach, Los Angeles…”

“So we have all been seeing these images of 75, 80 cargo ships off the coast of California, Long Beach, Los Angeles, waiting to get in because we are starting up our economy after the pandemic was shut down. Obviously, it is not something we went to school for--shutting down an American economy and starting it back up-- but that is what we are doing, and we are muddling through it. And there are some painful price hikes here and there because of it--hard to say how long they will go on. But the one thing that struck me was all of those containerships full, they told me that it takes 7,000 tractor-trailers to unload a containership. That is 7,000 containers on a ship, and over 70 or 80 ships out there in the harbor. All of these manufactured goods coming from China. And it said to me, we read about the trade imbalance, we learn about the trade imbalance, we learn that China is out-manufacturing us and we are buying their goods. But, man, until you see those ships out in the harbor offshore, it doesn't really hit home how much they are beating us at manufacturing. What does this bill do to address that?”