Comments regarding proposed punitive U.S. port fees on Chinese-operated and -manufactured cargo ships continue to roll into the Office of the United States Trade Representative, which is holding hearings on the matter this week in Washington.
The fees, which can run as high as $1.5 million per ship per call, are designed to help underwrite a revival of the U.S. shipbuilding industry and fight China’s unfair trade practices.
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En un movimiento de represalia importante contra China, Estados Unidos está proponiendo cargos costosos que podrían agregar millones de dólares en costos para las líneas de contenedores oceánicos y otros transportistas que llaman puertos estadounidenses. La propuesta de la Oficina del Representante Comercial de los Estados Unidos (USTR), publicada el viernes en el Registro Federalestablece […]
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In a major retaliatory move against China, the United States is proposing expensive charges that could add millions of dollars in costs for ocean container lines and other carriers calling U.S. ports.
The proposal by the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), published Friday in the Federal Register, sets fees as high as $1.5 million per U.S. port call for ships built in China and $500,000 for a vessel operator with even a single Chinese-built ship in its fleet, or on order...
United States Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai has taken up a petition that, among other remedies, seeks to see a port charge imposed on Chinese-built ships calling U.S. ports. As we reported earlier, the Section 301 petition, was filed with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) by five national labor unions and provides a detailed breakdown of the non-market practices used the Peoples Republic of China to build up its shipyards and dominate world shipbuilding as part...
U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) are seeing growing support for their push for the Biden Administration to initiate an investigation into the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) unfair trade practices in commercial shipbuilding. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) have now joined Baldwin and Casey’s push in support of the United Steelworkers (USW) petition under Section 301 of the Trade Act of...
U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D.-Wis.) and Bob Casey (D.-Pa.) are throwing their weight behind a coalition of U.S. labor organizations led by the United Steelworkers union (USW) that has filed a Section 301 petition, calling on the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to initiate an investigation of Chinese commercial shipbuilding. The petition is for “for relief under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended” and calls for remedies that include levying a port fee on Chinese-built...