W W Meixner
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A significant portion of diving equipment comes in from China. These include fins, masks, wet-suits, BCDs, boots and regulators. How is the scuba industry viewing US-China trade war? All thoughts and opinions welcome.
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When the shelves in the LDS are empty...or we start seeing price increases over the standard 130%/150% markup we can start to get concerned...and I don't believe for a minute either are going to happen any-time soon...scuba gear doesn't begin to account for one grain of sand in the whole of the Sahara desert...
The problem does not lie so much with the guy sitting in the big chair in Beijing...as it does with the two guys sitting in the big chairs in Ottawa and Washington...
We're currently holding the telephone princess in a mansion...on house arrest...on the tax-payers dime... at the bequest of Washington...we have Canadians being held in China on trumped up charges because of it...
As of yesterday the the topic in vogue is now who is going to sell lobsters to China...and who isn't...and it looks like Canada is in...and the US is out...tomorrow it will be something else...don't hold your breath waiting for scuba gear to become a topic of tariff discussion...
There's a hell of a lot more at stake than masks...fins and snorkels...
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