Economy Based on Curious Trades With Other Nations

The graphic with “Businesses Feel Pressure as Cargo Sits on Water” [Oct. 1] tells a remarkable story about our economy.

We send them our waste (paper, scrap metal, pet and animal feeds) and raw materials (cotton, resins and plastics). They do some work on it all (add their labor). They send us back finished goods (furniture, clothes, shoes, toys and electronic equipment). We consume it.

A neat little arrangement we have with the rest of the world.

Ed Shoop

Somis