China, every mention
10 scenes (said by Ryan Petersen) · ← back to China
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where China comes up
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 5:03 Ryan Petersen We were like buying motorcycles in China and selling them on the internet in the U.S. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:36 Ryan Petersen Some guy bought like a bouncy house for his kid's birthday party in China because he was too cheap to buy one locally, like stuff like that.
- ▶ 35:14 Ryan Petersen You could ship a container from China to the U.S. for, our cost was like 600 dollars.
- ▶ 36:48 Ryan Petersen And we actually got a ton of demand to ship masks to China for the doctors in China. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:53 Ryan Petersen Won't charge us 200,000 dollars to fly a Dreamliner to China and back.
- ▶ 1:06:24 Ryan Petersen Um, and he, in his current administration, he said that in the Trump one, first term, that the tariffs on China paid for one third of the tax cuts that Trump did.
- ▶ 1:10:45 Ryan Petersen So when tariffs were at one 45 on China, we helped a lot of companies move into bonded warehouses because 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:30 Ryan Petersen You can just, or Canada, or most of Western Europe, so you can just, they set up this shell company in whatever country, it could be China, it could be anywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:47 Ryan Petersen If you bought it, like there was a middleman or an agent that bought it in China and marked it up to you, you can actually import the goods at the price they paid, not the price you paid. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:44 Ryan Petersen And when I lived in China, I got a copy of that book. 2 times in the scene