Promotional Items Awash in International Trade Issues

Looking at the five-decade old Claymation Gumby that symbolizes her business, Promotional Incentives, you wouldn't think Lucy Costa and her husband, Jack, the co-owner, are international traders anchored to the global economy.

But it's true. Mrs. Costa, a sharply articulate, Cape Coral-based entrepreneur who arranges the delivery of promotional products to businesses all over the United States and the world, is worried about the price of shipping fuel, and politics in Yemen, and Chinese aggression in the Sea of Japan.