NFA Writes to Secretary Pete Buttigieg Asking to Unload Our Ports
Industry Warns of “ Very Real Possibility” of a Fourth Without Fireworks WASHINGTON – The National Fireworks Association (NFA) yesterday sent a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calling attention to the problems facing the transportation, logistics and supply chain of our nation’s consumer fireworks industry. After signing the American Rescue Plan, President Biden addressed Americans in prime time and gave them hope that they could begin resuming to normalcy with small gatherings of friends and families by the Fourth of July. But the grave reality is that if many Americans expect to gather on the Fourth of July and celebrate our nation’s birthday with fireworks, as they normally would, they may be sorely disappointed. “The pandemic has thrown the world’s transportation network into total chaos creating obstacles at every turn,” NFA President Steve Houser and over 1,300 NFA members, fireworks company owners and employees wrote to the Department of Trans