Cast iron pipe inventory at Charlotte Pipe’s foundry in North Carolina. The Trump administration has taken a strong stance against transshipments from China intended to evade high tariffs. Any transshipment of goods will now face a 40 percent additional tariff. Courtesy of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company
Imagine this: it’s the humid, lowlands of Cambodia. There’s a special economic zone carved into where rice paddies used to fill the countryside. We drive along the clusters of concrete buildings until we turn into one unsuspecting warehouse.
We’re told it’s a manufacturing facility for cast iron pipes and pipe fittings. Yet, we don’t feel the heat of a furnace melting iron or hear the noise of pipe machines cutting through metals.
