{"id":6560,"date":"2022-04-06T09:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:48:23","slug":"statement-by-commissioner-vekich-in-support-of-commissioner-bentzels-assessment-of-the-peoples-republic-of-chinas-control-of-container-and-intermodal-chassis-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/statement-by-commissioner-vekich-in-support-of-commissioner-bentzels-assessment-of-the-peoples-republic-of-chinas-control-of-container-and-intermodal-chassis-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Commissioner Vekich in Support of Commissioner Bentzel\u2019s Assessment of the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s Control of Container and Intermodal Chassis Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 30, 2022, FMC Commissioner Carl W. Bentzel released his Assessment of the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s Control of Container and Intermodal Chassis Manufacturing. \u00a0The report provides an in-depth analysis of container and chassis manufacturing and identifies areas in which we need to focus to ensure sufficient equipment is available to meet our national interests.<\/p>\n<p>I fully support and appreciate Commissioner\u2019s Bentzel\u2019s extensive efforts and look forward to working together to ensure that we are doing everything we can to protect the supply chain from undue external influences.\u00a0 As Commissioner Bentzel notes, substantial subsidies provided by the Chinese government have resulted in 86% of chassis and 95% of containers being manufactured in China.\u00a0 Meanwhile, our exporters are having an increasingly difficult time getting their goods to market, often due to a lack of available equipment.<\/p>\n<p>It is important that as a nation we have the resources available to respond to supply chain disruptions and a workforce that is trained to address these changing market conditions. \u00a0Although there is more to be done, we need to stimulate a manufacturing base in the U.S. that would be able to produce the equipment that is essential to meet the needs of our exporters.\u00a0 We need to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Max M. Vekich is a Commissioner with the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission. The thoughts and comments expressed here are his own and do not necessarily represent the position of the Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 30, 2022, FMC Commissioner Carl W. Bentzel released his Assessment of the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s Control of Container and Intermodal Chassis Manufacturing. \u00a0The report provides an in-depth analysis of container and chassis manufacturing and identifies areas in which we need to focus to ensure sufficient equipment is... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"\/statement-by-commissioner-vekich-in-support-of-commissioner-bentzels-assessment-of-the-peoples-republic-of-chinas-control-of-container-and-intermodal-chassis-manufacturing\/\">Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,46],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}