News / Taiwan gears up for more transhipment amid 90-day US tariff grace period

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The Taiwan government plans to create more berths on the island’s container ports to attract more transhipment volumes, anticipating more traffic from South-east Asia amid the US-China trade war.

Transport and communications minister Chen Shih-kai yesterday told the Legislative Yuan (parliament) that his ministry was formulating countermeasures amid the 90-day grace period on additional tariffs on US imports from all countries.

On 8 April, President Trump announced that, except from China, all goods imported into the US would have a baseline 10% ...