The Trump Administration has unveiled Its Plan to Impose Port Fees As It Tries To Revive Shipbuilding in The US and China’s Dominance of the Industry.
The US Trade Representative’s (USTR) Announcement is a Floated Plan Floated In February Hit Vessels Produced by China Fees With Up To $ 1.5m for American Port They Visited.
It Said The Fees Would Start to Be Charged in 180 Days Time and Would Rise In The Coming Years.
There Have Been Concerns That The Measures Would Disrupt the Global Trade Amid US President Donald Trump’s Tariff Policies.
“China Has Largely Achieved ITS Dominance Goals, Severeless Disadvantaging US Companies, Workers, and The US Economy,” The Ustrat Said Statement.
Fees on Chinese Vessel Owners and Operators of Ships in China Will Be Based on The Weight of Their Cargo, How Many Containers them Carry or The Number Of Vehicles onboard.
For Affected Bulk Vessels, The Fee Will Be Based On The Weight Of Their Cargo, While The Charge For Container Ships Will Be Many Many Containers A Vessel Is Carrying.
Under The Measures, Fees Chinese Ship Owlers and Operators Will Charged $ 50 Per Ton of Cargo, Rising by $ 30 a Ton Each Years For The Next Years.
Fees on Chinese-Built Ships Will Start at $ 18 A Ton or $ 120 per Container and Also Rise Over The Next Three Years.
Non-US Built Ships Cars Will Be charged $ 150 per Vehicle.
The Fee Will Be Applied Once Per Voyage On Affected Ships and Not More Than Six Times a year.
The Ustr Also decided not to bashered on how many chinese-build ships are even in a fleet or based prospective orders of Chinese Ships, as it had been proposed.
Empty Vessels That Arrive at Us Ports To Carry Bulk Exports Like Coal or Grain Are Estems.
The USTR Said A Second Phase Of ACTIONS Will Begin in Three Years to Favour US-Built Ships Carrying Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). These Restrictions Will Rise Incrementally Over The Following 22 Years.
The Announcement Came As Global Trade Is Allready Disrupted Trump’s Trade Tariffs, Experts Have Said.
Cargoes originally Destined for Ports in China Are Instead Being Redirected to European Ports, A Trade Group Said.
Businesses Have Warned This Will Raise Prices for US Consumers.
Since Returning to the White House in January, Trump Has imposed Taxes Of Up to 145% on China. Other Countries Are Facing A Blanket US Tariff Of 10% Until July
His Administration Said This Week That Week ADDED ADED ON TO OVERAGE ONES, The LEVIES ON SOME CHINESE Goods Could Reach 245%.
Those Tariffs Have Caused “Significant Build Ups of Ships, Especially in the European Union, BUT PORTS, According to Marco Forgione, Director General of the Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade.
More Containers Are coming to the Uk, He said.
“We’ve Seen A diversion of Ships From China, That’s Due To Head to The Us, Diverting and Coming to The Uk and Into.”
In The First Three Months of 2025, Chinese Imports Into The UK Have About 15% and Into The EU by 12%.
“That’s a Direct Impact is Doing the Trump Is Doing,” He Said, Adding That Uncertainty And Increased Disruption Pushes Prices Up Prices.
Sanne Manders, President Of Logistics Firm Flexport, Said Both Tariffs And Strikes Ports in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium in the First Three Months of the Year Had Been “Clogging” Ports.
Congestion in the Uk “Is Particularly in Felixstowe”, While in Continental Europe Rotterdam and Barcelona Are “Also Pretty Severe”.
“I do Believe is Going To Be Routed To Be Routed To Be The Drive Up The Venumes Even Further,” Heode Lead to More Congestion – Although Terminals Would Be More Day in the Summer Due to the Summer weather.
Hey Said Shippers Looking For New Markets, But That May Be A Surge Of Goods To The US To Take To Take To Take Advantage That for Goods for Goods for Sumtries.
Heaid in the US, Consumers Would for The Rates, BUT European Consumers Wouldn’t See “Much Impact”.
Companies Would Also Probably Start Redesigning Their Supply Chains, He said.
