News / Up to $1.5m fee for every Chinese-built box ship calling at a US port

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24/02/2025

Following its investigation into what it concluded was unfair Chinese state support of maritime supply chains, US trade representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer has proposed fees for China-built ships calling at US ports.

At their most extreme, the new fees could amount to $1.5m per ship call ...

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Bill Chua
February 25, 2025 at 6:15 am
Surcharges in a perfect world where the mighty rules work. Unfortunately we all live in a dysfunctional earth. So, we expect the exporting countries to slavishly comply. Great thinking.

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Dwight Campbell
February 26, 2025 at 11:23 pm
I agree with the Chinese.

The US subsidizes everything they can, and when they no longer can, they come back and say they were taken advantage of….

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