{"id":3705,"date":"2025-10-17T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:47:51","slug":"china-and-us-impose-symmetrical-port-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/china-and-us-impose-symmetrical-port-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"China and US impose symmetrical port fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week in the USA, new USTR measures imposed fees on Chinese-owned or operated vessels calling at the USA, and on non-Chinese operators using Chinese-built ships.<br><br>With a large portfolio of ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, the U-Freight Group is keeping a watchful eye on how any of the container shipping lines we use are passing on these expenses.<br><br>China has also imposed its own levies on US ships calling at Chinese gateways, describing the move as a means to safeguard its shipping industry from discriminatory measures. The fees apply to US-owned, operated, built or flagged vessels \u2013 but not those that have been built in China.<br><br>Rising and easing tensions between the world\u2019s two largest economies have been a recurring feature of the trading environment this year.\u00a0<br><br>Still, the timing of the latest announcements appears tactical, with both Trump and Xi Jinping likely trying to strengthen their bargaining positions ahead of trade talks scheduled for later this month.<br>\u00a0<br>U-Freight&#8217;s customers can be certain that we are in discussions with the container shipping lines with the aim of minimising exposure to rate increases.<br><br>For more information about our global ocean freight container services, please visit the relevant pages of this website, or contact your local office, which can be seen here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ufreight.com\/locations<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week in the USA, new USTR measures imposed fees on Chinese-owned or operated vessels calling at the USA, and on non-Chinese operators using Chinese-built ships. With a large portfolio of ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, the U-Freight Group is keeping a watchful eye on how any of the container shipping lines we&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}