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Ryan Petersen

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The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

how much carbon went into making it so they can measure the carbon footprint.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And then the U, coming soon, you're going to have to provide like a QR code on every item that you can scan and they'll tell you the carbon footprint.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So the world just keeps getting more and more complex, which plays into the hands of...

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

customs company companies like flexport because we're like cool you need technology to track all this stuff um kind of classic regulatory capture types of we're not lobbying for any of these things but uh and you're the most tech forward of all the companies kind of we're the only one founded only one in the top 100 in the world founded after the web browser was invented a lot of good companies but they're not tech companies fundamentally so we have to uh

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

The world is our oyster.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

We should win it all.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

You have to be careful.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

There's some illegal stuff that I see.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Not so much on our customers.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

We talk them out of this.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

But one of the temptations that a lot of people are falling into right now is letting your factory import the goods for you and then buying it from them in the U.S.,

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

And then not turning a blind eye if the factory cheats on the value of the goods or their classification.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Customs and Border Protection and DOJ.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Their problem is what the factories will do is set up a shell company.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Not in the U.S.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

You don't have to have a U.S.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

entity to import goods into the U.S.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

Oh, interesting.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

You can just, or Canada or most of Western Europe.

The Knowledge Project
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport

So you can just, they set up this shell company in whatever country.