well its an interesting question.... if 'waste' is the limiting of movement of goods or services, then every single tarrif and trade barrier is theoretically a cause of 'waste', since at some point every single product that is under trade barrier winds up in a similar situation to this ship, does it not? even if it at a small scale.
so if someone makes 25 Talos Power9 computers and the market would support 25 of them, but there is a tarriff that discourages one from being sold, then you have 1 machine sitting there, essentially on a proverbial virtual boat. Maybe its not burning fuel, but its taking up space somewhere, costing rent and overhead. Not much but a little.
Now multiply that tiny amount times a billion other products ...
so if someone makes 25 Talos Power9 computers and the market would support 25 of them, but there is a tarriff that discourages one from being sold, then you have 1 machine sitting there, essentially on a proverbial virtual boat. Maybe its not burning fuel, but its taking up space somewhere, costing rent and overhead. Not much but a little. Now multiply that tiny amount times a billion other products ...
just a thought experiment...