News / US port operators brace for tariff blitz if Trump gets second term

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US port operators will be focused on the results of tomorrow’s elections, concerned that potential tariff policies could upend their business models.

With the polls placing the main presidential candidates neck and neck, sources across US supply chains have told The Loadstar that many shippers were organising their inventories on the basis of a Trump victory, as worry grows over his tariff pronouncements.

Describing ’tariff’ as “the most beautiful word in the world”, the Republican candidate ...