The U.S. Trade Representative is gearing up for hearings this week on the proposed port fees targeting Chinese vessels. Industry and maritime executives are expected to detail the adverse effect the levy would have on the U.S. economy and global trade as a whole.
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New voices weigh in on impact of USTR’s proposed port fees on China-built ships
More concerns are being raised about the port fees that the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) proposes be placed on Chinese-built ships.
USTR proposes massive port fees on Chinese-built ships entering U.S. ports
As Peter Sands, chief shipping analyst at Xeneta noted last week, containership operators are looking at their options.
Now the trade association for those operators, the World Shipping Council (WSC) has released its assessment of the likely impact of the port fees should they be...
U.S. port fees on China-built ships? Carriers weigh their options
The prospect of U.S. port fees being imposed on Chinese-built ships is keeping shipping analysts busy. As we reported earlier, in response to a petition filed by U.S. unions back in March 2024, then U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Katherine Tai found in January, at the tail end of the Biden Administration, that China’s targeting the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors for dominance is actionable under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. Now, under a new administration,...
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USTR proposes massive port fees on Chinese-built ships entering U.S. ports
Operators of Chinese built ships could face a service fee of up $1.5 million for each U.S. port call. As we reported earlier, in response to a petition filed by U.S. unions back in March 2024, then U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Katherine Tai found that China’s targeting the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors for dominance is actionable under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974
USTR: China’s dominance of global shipbuilding warrants U.S. action
Section 301 is a key tool...
Contrarrestar el dominio marítimo: Trump propone nuevas tarifas a buques chinos
La administración de Donald Trump ha presentado una nueva propuesta para imponer tarifas a los buques comerciales de China, como parte de una estrategia para reducir el dominio marítimo del país asiático. La Oficina del representante de comercio de EE.UU. (USTR por sus siglas en inglés) anunció el...
U.S. Trade Representative to investigate unfair Chinese shipbuilding practices
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...
Support grows for USTR to slap U.S. port fees on Chinese-built ships
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...
USTR petition seeks to impose a port fee on Chinese-built ships docking in U.S. ports
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...