US ports are on the meet link of Trump's trade war – and they're fortifying for elevated China tariffs :

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U.S. ports, which carry out hundreds of billions of dollars in produce both year, will be the number one to experience the bind if the Trump administration's trade war begins to brake the comprehensive economy. Still, any widening of tariffs on Chinese commodities would be felt by scores of of the 328 officer ports of application maintained by U.S. Customs and Border shelter anywhere supplementary than $505 billion in property at home from China go on year. In addition, $130 billion in American finished freight and freight flowed through folks ports to China every year, producing a trade dearth in merchandise of $375 billion. He estimates that if the U.S. imposes 10 percent tariffs on an an additional $400 billion of imports from China, and China were to give as good as you get with 25 percent tariffs on every part of American imports, the U.S. budget would be bereaved jaggedly seven-tenths of augmentation in GDP.

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