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Shawn Schomer

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“We got to get these tariff cans out of here. That’s what the management tells us,”

Shawn Schomer · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Schomer described being asked by management to load empty shipping containers onto outgoing vessels to avoid Trump's tariffs.

verbatim, matched to source The Guardian
“It can’t be good business to bring in empties and then have to sort them and ship them back out empty,”

Shawn Schomer · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Schomer questioned the economic logic of importing empty containers and shipping them back out empty to avoid tariffs.

verbatim, matched to source The Guardian
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