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Donate, and thank you. On the program today the flip side of the port strike a different way to think about

tomorrow's jobs report and we will take a trip to the islands. From American

public media this is marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdall. It is Thursday today, 3rd of October. Good as always to have you long, everybody.

The United States is the world's biggest importer of stuff.

Makes sense, right? World's biggest economy, relatively affluent. Stuff. dollars worth of stuff in 2022 so says the office of the US Trade

representative so the port strike now in day three is a big deal the United

States is also though behind China the world's second biggest exporter of stuff.

A bit more than $2 trillion worth of goods going out the metaphorical door.

Again, that's from the USTR. And that means that the longer the strike goes,

there are, yes, going to be strains on businesses and consumers waiting for their imports.

Industries that rely on East and Gulf Coast ports to get their products to overseas markets, they're going to be feeling it too.

Marketplace's Justin Ho starts us off.

One industry that's bracing for impact is agriculture. This couldn't have come at a

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