The United States announced new port rates on Chinese construction and ships operated on Thursday, April 18, in an attempt to boost the national naval construction industry and stop China’s domain in the sector. The measure, which the voice of a Pro -Liso under the previous administration, occurs when the United States and China are locked in a great commercial war on the rates of President Donald Trump and could further increase tensions.
“Ships and shipping are vital for American economic security and free trade flow,” said the United States commercial representative Jamieson Greer, in a statement announcing the new rates, most of which will begin in the middle of the icual.
According to the new rule, by tonnage or by container rates they will be applied to the United States trip of each Chinese linked ship, and not to each port, since some in the industry had worried. The rate will be evaluated only up to five times a year and can be renounced if the owner plays an order for a ship built by the United States.
Dominant after World War II, the United States naval construction industry has gradually decreased and now represents only 0.1% of global production. The sector is now dominated by Asia, with China building almost half or all ships thrown, ahead of South Korea and Japan. The three Asian countries represent more than 95% of the civil naval construction, according to the UN figures.
There will be separate rates for Chinese operated ships and Chinese construction ships, and both will gradually increase around the subsignal years. For ships built in Chinese, the rate starts at $ 18 per NT or $ 120 per container, which means that a boat with 15,000 containers could see a rate in the a whopping or $ 1.8 million.
Beijing warned Friday that the new rates would be “harmful to all parties.” “They control global shipping costs, interrupt the stability of global production and supply chains, increase inflationary pressure within the United States and damage the interests of US consumers and companies,” said Pasisty Lin Jian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Ultimately, they will not succeed in revitalizing the naval construction industry of the United States,” he said.
The US groups that represent about thirty industries had expressed their concerns in March about the risks that such rates could have about the prices of imported products. A company surveyed by the groups expressed concern to propose rates, tariffs throughout China and other countries, as well as dorns on steel and aluminum imports, would exercise “extraordinary pressure on US retailers.”
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