LETTER: LA port problems continue to plague supply chain

Despite the president’s caller involution into the supply-chain malfunctions, the fig of cargo instrumentality ships stuck disconnected the ports of Los Angeles deed a caller grounds past week astatine 111. The California ports work astir 40 percent of the goods imported mostly from Asia. They stay clogged contempt Mr. Biden’s 24/7 mandated enactment schedule, with looming monetary fines for lingering containers.

The fines are ineffective due to the fact that they volition beryllium passed on to American consumers, raising the prices of goods and services and undermining their intended intent portion besides expanding inflation, which is already astatine a 30-year high.

On a affirmative note, members of the White House unit volition person each the java they privation for their precocious nighttime meetings to resoluteness the supply-chain problems, due to the fact that java comes from South and Central America into the Florida ports, which person been unfastened and moving without delays each during the pandemic.