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US Ports Warn of $6.7B Bill if 100% Tariff on China-Made Cranes Kicks in
« on: July 09, 2025, 11:06:11 am »
US Ports Warn of $6.7B Bill if 100% Tariff on China-Made Cranes Kicks in
 
U.S. ports are urging the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to reconsider a new 100-percent tariff on Chinese-manufactured ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, citing billions in extra costs.

At a hearing in Washington on Monday, American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) president and CEO Cary Davis testified that public port authorities would have to pay total tariffs, if imposed, of a combined $6.7 billion over the next decade.
 
"Applying a new 100 percent tariff to Chinese STS cranes will not create a domestic crane manufacturing industry out of thin air," stated Davis, in official comments submitted to the Federal Register. "It will only increase costs for public port authorities."

The 100-percent tariffs would expand on prior 25-percent tariffs slapped on the equipment in 2024 under the Biden administration. At the time, the 81-port AAPA also pushed back against those duties, but to no avail.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-ports-warn-of-6-7b-bill-if-100-tariff-on-china-made-cranes-kicks-in/ar-AA1F92VX?ocid=BingNewsVerp
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Re: US Ports Warn of $6.7B Bill if 100% Tariff on China-Made Cranes Kicks in
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2025, 11:07:46 am »
Uh-oh!  Not good!  Not good at all!  Our ports are dependent on Chinese machinery? :facepalm2:
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Re: US Ports Warn of $6.7B Bill if 100% Tariff on China-Made Cranes Kicks in
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2025, 09:17:11 pm »
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"The proposed tariffs on STS cranes will undermine the U.S. economy and national security by negatively disrupting essential U.S. supply chains," ZPMC said in a filing to the USTR Monday. "China's STS cranes pose no alleged cybersecurity risk, and the proposed tariffs are not a legitimate remedy; and the proposed tariffs would negatively impact the global STS crane industry, including the United States, and would harm, rather than help, the U.S. economy and national security."

How is a dependency on China for port infrastructure not affecting National Security?

It won't until it does.

I did a stint as a structural steel fitter, and if we can build power plants, someone should be able to tool up to build these cranes.
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