Transpac spot rates crash as pre-tariff demand for US imports from Asia fades
Container spot freight rates on the transpacific eastbound routes from Asia to the US west ...
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A note published yesterday by Bernstein**, talked of a trade policy environment that “remains highly volatile”.
(**Titled: ’Supply Chain Pulse Check: Another day, another trade policy’.)
What’s very clear: from Liberation Day, to a 90-day tariff pause on most countries, to the deal with China, “multinationals and their logistics providers are chasing a moving target”.
Indeed.
The current month for the ocean trade “is reportedly seeing what looks like an early peak season following China-US rapprochement, as importers scramble for Chinese goods”.
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