This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Help Manufacturing and Furniture Industry with Inflated Foreign Shipping Costs
We need the government to implement anti trust measures and increase steps to increase vessel supply. The cost of shipping has increase from $2,800 to above and beyond $13,000 dollars per container. This means that companies are passing the inflation of costs onto their customers, the British public
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If this increase continues it's going to send inflation higher and put UK furniture companies out of business.
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