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Ryan Petersen

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The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I forget the exact number, but they're quite high.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

I think 50% or more.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

on Chinese-made steel and aluminum.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Maybe I should know all these details.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

It's very complex.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

But if you have a couch that has steel and aluminum, you don't want to pay that 50%.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

You don't want to pay that high duty on the entire couch.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

You want to only pay it on the portion...

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

That's steel and aluminum.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So you really have to build this great, we call it a product library, which Flexport offers as technology products.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So you want to be able to track all these things at the subcomponent level.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Where's every item made?

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And then there's all these new regulations that have been coming out for many, many years.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

There's one called the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act, requires you to track the cotton, anything cotton, where is it made?

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Specifically, like, wet down.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And then the EU has new ones very similar, but any forestry, any wood product, you'd be able to show where the wood was grown anywhere in the world.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Track that.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

This is insanely complex.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Carbon, they want to know the carbon border adjustment factor, I think it's called, that they want to know all the input, all the carbon inputs of every single subcomponent of every product in the world.