trump closed some borders, and opened other borders wide open

Walt

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We were about to put in an order for computer boards from Taiwan. It is not GPU cloud boards, but close enough. These are in high demand, and there is a waiting list. They were available to ship mid January, all we had to do was pay for it. I knew trump would be bad, and begged to get the money in escrow, and the boards shipped to us before trump came to office. But there were delays, and we did not put the money into escrow until after trump got into office.

The pre-approval was neither approved, nor disapproved. It just sad there for days. It turns out that trump has taken people off customs, and the border, and put them on internal enforcement of immigration laws. Whoever in customs who was supposed to pre-approve the customs approval was probably looking through foreign students' transcripts or some other waste of time.

The solution is going through a NAFTA country, or at least that seemed like a solution. If customs makes no action on a pre-approval from a NAFTA country, it is automatically approved. So first we found an airport in Mexico that the Taiwanese could fly the boards to, and then the plan was to drive it over the border, and fly it to Newark Airport. The Taiwanese found this more than a little shady, so we found an airport in Canada... But then trump announced tariffs on goods from Canada, which would tie up the boards on the border, so again the Taiwanese refused to ship through Canada.

As a final desperate act, we got an essential goods letter from the Treasury. This more or less forced customs to allow it through. So everything fixed, right?

I just heard our boards have been delivered to Copenhagen, and the escrow has been released back to us. The issue is we had a 90 days after it clears customs escrow. That meant that the manufacturer would only be paid 90 days after it cleared customs. If it spent months in customs, they would be left unpaid.
 
Boys and girls, what did we learn from this?

While goods arriving by air and water are being held up, goods coming by land are not. I am sure the drug smugglers already know this, and are sending all the drugs through our open land borders that they can.
 
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