From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-trade-crackdown-hits-cheap-food-containers-from-china-vietnam-massive-new-duties
The Trump administration is dropping the hammer on cheap imports
of disposable food containers from China and Vietnam, announcing
massive trade penalties that experts say will lead to safer
products while simultaneously protecting U.S. companies from
unfair competition.
"America continues to thrive when fair competition occurs,"
attorney Yohai Baisburd of Cassidy Levy Kent, counsel to the
American Molded Fiber Coalition, told Fox News Digital Tuesday.
"The Trump Administration is using every tool in the toolbox
to enforce U.S. trade laws and cheaters beware because they
are coming after you."
. . .
The generic name is "Thermoformed Molded Fiber" ... you
basically take paper - recycled or not - pulp, dampen it
a little and then put it in a hot press. You get nicely
shaped, biodegradable/biofriendly, little containers for
yer cheeseburgers and such. They hold up for as long as
needed, but not 'forever'.
I'd already noticed trends in convenience-store food items.
A number of things that came in celo-type wrappers and PET
containers now suddenly come in waxed paper instead. Nothing
wrong with waxed paper for the purpose ... but why the
abrupt switch ? Has to be money related ....
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