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How Do Global Supply Chain Issues Affect the Home Décor You Love?
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May 14, 2025
In today’s interconnected world, the global supply chain plays a vital role in making home décor items—like furniture and accents—readily available. But when disruptions hit, they can quickly impact both the availability and pricing of your favorite design pieces. From geopolitical tensions to shipping delays, these challenges are reshaping the home décor industry. Listen now and learn how these shifts could affect your next decorating decision—and click here (https://mondoro.com/the-impact-of-global-supply-chain-disruptions-on-home-decor-availability/) to read more about The Impact of Global Supply Chain Disruptions on Home Décor Availability. #HomeDecorTrends #SupplyChainCrisis #InteriorDesignTips #GlobalTradeInsights #FurnitureDesign #HomeStylingIdeas #EcommerceChallenges #GlobalTradeGal Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/globaltradegal)
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hi this is Anita from the Global Trade
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Gal today I want to talk about the
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impact of global supply chain
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disruptions and even though I'm talking
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specifically about the home decor
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business which is my business which is
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home decor and home furniture because at
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Muro we create develop and manufacture
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home decor and home furniture this
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really applies to all types of
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businesses and industries i believe that
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this is an extremely timely topic
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especially now as the United States is
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putting tariffs on you know just about
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everybody but you know there's many ways
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you could go I guess you could call it
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sort of like the barrier to trade like
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you know that this can hurt the global
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supply chain and some of them aren't the
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barrier of trade they're just things
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that sort of happen and I've listed out
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here sort of like 15 of them we're going
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to talk about here one of them is the
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trade wars we're now looking at trade
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wars going on between the United States
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and Canada the United States and Europe
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the United States and China the United
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States and basically everybody the thing
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about a trade war is there's no winners
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you know people think well we're going
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to win this is going to bring back the
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jobs there I don't see any winners
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that's ever really happened from a trade
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war only thing most people end up
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getting is higher prices and because
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they get higher prices you got less
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sales and it hurts the economy you know
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example of the US you know tra you know
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China trade war on Chinese manufacturers
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they resulted in higher retail prices in
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the US market and you know there's many
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people that are estimating now with this
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current trade war could you know it
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could be a couple hundred dollars for US
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families every single month because of
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these tariffs you know that brings me to
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the number two which is the tariffs
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which is this costly barrier here you
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know tariffs are essentially taxes that
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are imposed on imported goods i was
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talking to a friend of mine recently
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about this and she's like "Well doesn't
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the country pay?" I said "No tariff is
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paid on the US side." It's for example
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if you go to the store and you buy a
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pack of gum before you can get the gum
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out of the store you need to pay the tax
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on that pack of gum that's essentially
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what a tariff is a tariff is an
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additional tax on the good that's
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imported so the person who pays is the
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person who is importing the goods or in
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the case of the gum you pay the tax as
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you are buying the pack of gum you know
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tariffs on things such as raw materials
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such as wood or steel or aluminum is
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just going to make it more expensive for
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people who are using those materials to
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manufacture within the United States
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it's going to increase production cost
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and then what does it do too besides um
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increasing production cost it's also
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going to increase the cost that they
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have to sell to export those things so
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that's why there are no winners at all
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when it comes to things as trade wars
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and tariffs you know yes you can try to
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locally source but locally sourcing the
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cost may even be more expensive than if
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you bought it from overseas and that
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becomes the problem there you know if
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you don't have free and open trade it
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just begins to hurt the economy and hurt
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the the consumers another thing is
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anti-dumping you know anti-dumping is
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basically preventative measure on
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countries that from selling their
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products or they say they sell the
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products at below market values you know
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many many years ago I went through the
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anti-dumping and bedroom furniture for
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China we were producing some bedroom
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furniture there we ended up having to
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you know totally you know give up the
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business because the factories we were
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working with didn't have the protection
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from the anti-dumping and the truth of
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the matter is the factories of
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protection were really the big factories
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that were probably the ones that were
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more anti-dumping than us that were
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selling high-end bedroom furniture the
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whole thing about the anti-dumping in
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the bedroom furniture was several US
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company manufacturers went over and said
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"Well we can no longer compete you know
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with China so that we basically need to
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have anti-dumping." They got the
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anti-dumping regulations but I can tell
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you no jobs really came back to the
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United States because of that instead
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those companies switched the jobs to
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Vietnam Indonesia Philippines and other
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places they did not bring those jobs
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back to America that is again why I I
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don't believe in anti-dumping i I
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realize sometimes maybe you have to
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there's really unfair trade practices
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the factories I've seen which I
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personally saw with my own eyes you know
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when I was working in China and we were
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dealing with this was it hurt the small
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factories it hurt the medium-sized
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factories it hurt the factories that
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definitely were not anti-dumping the
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factories that were doing higherend
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product why because suddenly now every
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piece of furniture they sold into the
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United States that can no longer be
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competitive so they had to switch from
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doing bedroom furniture to doing other
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types of furniture because of the
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anti-dumping another thing which can
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really affect trade of course is port
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congestion delays and shortages you know
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port congestion is often due to labor
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disputes um inefficient logistics um you
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increase shipping demand all of these
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things can make a difference of it uh
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things like the Panama Canal congestion
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can delay shipments you know sending
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things from from Asia to North America
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so these are all types of port
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congestions if there's a strike which
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there's been many port strikes that can
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of course cause a lot of problems too
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sometimes when there's been some port
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strikes there's been the ships just
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sitting out there on the ocean just kind
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of waiting to be able to land and what
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happens with this is when things get
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delayed like this it really becomes a
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problem for everything because suddenly
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you know the shipping is made for you
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ship a container you unload the
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container and then the container gets
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reshipped it's not made to be sitting
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out there in the ocean full of goods
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because then it begins to mess up
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everything and suddenly container costs
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become extremely high because nobody can
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get containers it becomes a huge problem
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so that you goes my next one which is
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about shipping container shortages they
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can increase freight cost we saw this a
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lot during the COVID pandemic where
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where suddenly like containers that
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would have cost $4,000 were costing you
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know you know $18,000 $20,000 huge
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increase and for a lot of the importers
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they just don't have that built into
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their their prices to be able to handle
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that other things which can you know
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affect the whole you know global supply
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chain is raw material shortages can
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cause production delays if you have
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things like wood metal or you know
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textiles other things like that can
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cause a problem uh global um you know
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global lumber shortages can lead to
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delays or price hikes in wooden
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furniture or if you're looking for a
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specific type of furniture labor
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shortages can be huge too especially if
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you're doing what we're doing where
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you're dealing with the home furnishing
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and and home decor i was saying to
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somebody recently like years ago when I
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was first working in China a lot of the
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products that we did were hand painted
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very intricately hand painted we had you
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know we work in factories had teams and
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teams and teams of these sort of
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qualified hand painters that could copy
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anything and that's all they did was
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hand paint and then suddenly the look
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changed and everybody wanted this
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transitional look and didn't want the
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hand painted anymore all those hand
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painters have disappeared today in China
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it's very hard to find somebody who can
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hand paint why because they've all
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disappeared they have new jobs or
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they're doing new things and they're not
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working in the factories anymore so you
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know things as labor shortages or
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changes in looks or changes in designs
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can cause a labor shortage at some time
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uh political instability is another huge
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one that if if there's political unrest
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or there's or or what's happening now in
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the United States these government
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policies can disrupt manufacturing and
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can you know disrupt the import export
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process and the global supply chain
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environmental disasters can too natural
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disasters such as hurricanes earthquakes
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and floods um even things like the
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wildfires in in California can affect it
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disrupt logistics and delay shipments
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currency is also another big one that
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you need to always look out for because
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if suddenly the currency changes or or
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in some way if you're buying in dollars
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and suddenly the dollar dips or changes
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you know you can end up paying much more
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for the goods or for the order than you
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would have before changes in consumer
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demand we talked about this a bit before
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when we talked about you know the hand
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painting that you know the consumer
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demand the looks changed so suddenly
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there became this whole you know
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inventory imbalance became harder to
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find people to produce certain things
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environmental regulations this in China
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has been huge where I must say that
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China has been you know cracking down a
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lot on environmental issues i just read
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you know today in the newspaper in
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Vietnam where a factory was being forced
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to move because of environmental issues
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you know in outside Vietnam so all these
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environmental issues pollution and
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things like that can cause a huge uh
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problem and even the government may shut
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down the factory force them to move or
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or or something else like that and tell
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them we don't we don't want you here
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anymore intellectual property disputes
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if you have something you bring
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something in and there's a property
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dispute with it this can cause a problem
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or cause a delay transportation
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bottlenecks and delivery delays this
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again is you such as you shortages of
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drivers you know even if you ship the
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container the container goes to you know
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the port or the ware or the you know the
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storage facility in the United States if
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there's no drivers to take the container
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out that can also be a problem too or if
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suddenly fuel prices go up and the
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driver begins to say well look I can't
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make money on this because fuel prices
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have got up so high that I can't move
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this container and last could be cyber
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security you know threats or attacks you
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know as the global supply chain becomes
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more online if there's a cyber security
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threat if there's a data operational you
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know threat this could become a risk for
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data and operation risk so you know
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that's why you know cyber security is
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such uch an important thing i have a
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nephew who's in cyber security and
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recently Microsoft and LinkedIn they did
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this type of survey and they were
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looking at you know what companies were
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looking for and the number one thing
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that most companies were looking for and
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didn't know if they could fulfill was
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cyber security so that just shows you
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how important cyber security is today
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that people are looking at cyber
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security and that cyber security is a
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very essential and important part of all
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types of operating systems you know
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there's many ways you can navigate these
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challenges that you can mitigate them in
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in many different ways and I've written
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a blog on this where you can go back and
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you can look at this if you're
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interested in it called the impact of
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global supply chain disruptions on home
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decor availability but I as I said we're
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not just talking about home decor even
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though that is kind of like what we know
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about this is really we're talking about
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the overall impact of the global supply
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disruptions and what they could mean for
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you i think with anything when it comes
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to risk these are all things that we
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need to look at all things that anybody
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who's in the global supply chain needs
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to look at and say "What can we do to
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mitigate these risks?" I believe that
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that's important and essential we hope
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that you will join with us that you've
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