Mass produced boards from overseas are flooding the market and driving the artisan surfboard builders out of business.

We are looking for a 50-70% import duty on all surfboards brought into the U.S.A.. This will give the domestic surfboard builder a fighting chance to stay in business.

We need to help our elected officials bring this unfair advantage to an end. Foreign surfboard manufacturers are taking advantage of this situation by importing mass produced surfboards of inferior quality into the U.S.A. and selling them at a premium price.

Did you know that imported surfboards have no import duty coming into the USA?

Rumors have been circling for years that foreign surfboard manufacturers actually sand off the “point of origin” indicator to hide the country where the surfboard was manufactured. Doing so is illegal and something must be done to remedy this problem. Without a point of origin indicator, it impossible for the consumer to know where the board was build and by whom; was it a 16 year old boy from Indonesia that has never surfed? Or a 12 year old girl working in a sweatshop in China or some other third world country?

Consumers have a right to know what they are buying, where it was made as well as the ecological/carbon footprint that these foreign surfboard manufacturers are having on our world. Here in the U.S.A. we have OSHA protecting the safety of the workers and other regulatory agencies like the EPA and AQMD to protect our environment. Foreign manufacturers do not follow the same regulations that we have.

Some of our biggest concerns are:

Pollution from container ships traveling across the oceans

Well water pollution/ground water contamination

BPA fumes polluting the air during manufacturing

The solution: a prominent "point of origin" indicator (4” X ¼” rice paper marker) placed UNDER the fiberglass in a conspicuous spot such as next to the middle or back fin.