What are the reasons behind transshipments? Address them from the perspective of U.S. law-enforcement officers and from the perspectives of Chinese manufacturers. What types of barriers to trade are transshipments attempting to bypass? Are punitive damages the right approach to addressing transshipments? Explain.

Transshipments involve shipping one container to a certain transport and distribution hub, and then to another. Most of the times it is done to consolidate cargo (combine small shipments into a larger shipment) or to deconsolidate cargo(divide a large shipment into smaller ones).

Transshipments are usually 100% legal, but sometimes they are used to try to smuggle goods into a country. The smuggling doesn't mean introducing illegal things like drugs or other type of traffic, but it is also done to avoid custom duties (taxes). On the other hand, Chinese manufacturers need transshipment to lower costs and be more efficient. More than 99% of transshipments are legal and they do help to lower shipping costs.

The main purpose behind transshipments is to simply lower costs since the shipping distances are very long and factories do not send a whole ship full of containers to a single US port.

I do believe that transshipments are useful and in case some transport or distribution company wants to illegally benefit from it, then they should be severely punished. So I do believe that punitive damages are the right approach since the punishment is usually larger than the harm but it also serves as a deterrent for future smugglers. It's the same logic behind airlines who transport individuals carrying drugs, the airlines are not responsible, but the individuals that are responsible must be punished severely.

appointment

Explanation:

initial sales calls is very crucial when trying to make sales for new and existing product, there are some process that it entails such as making introduction by communicating with the new prospect in other to have them in right frame of mind. Then follow by asking the necessary questions which is very important, after these the pitch can be delivered though this may not sell the entire product but with follow up call it will sell. Then one needs to learn how to manage objection from the prospect because there will always be one. It should be noted that Most initial sales calls on new prospects require appointment that indicates that the seller thinks the prospect's time is important.