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U.S. seaborne\u00a0imports\u00a0<\/span>of goods from China dropped 28.5% year-over-year in May, the sharpest decline since the pandemic, as President Donald Trump’s 145% tariffs took hold, supply chain technology provider Descartes said on Monday.<\/p>\n China is the top U.S. supplier of goods that enter through seaports, including the nation’s bus<\/span>iest in Los Angeles\/Long Beach. Domestic bus<\/span>inesses ranging from retailer Walmart to automaker Ford depend on those goods to operate.<\/p>\n Overall U.S. seaborne\u00a0imports\u00a0<\/span>in May tumbled 7.2% from the year earlier to 2.18 million 20-foot equivalent units – snapping a streak of near-record increases fueled by companies frontloading goods to avoid higher duties.<\/p>\n “The effects of U.S. policy shifts with China are now clearly visible in monthly trade flows,” Descartes said in a statement.<\/p>\n West Coast ports are more dependent on China trade and bore the brunt of the declines. From April to May, the nation’s bus<\/span>iest seaports in Long Beach and Los Angeles experienced steep drops in goods from China, 31.6% and 29.9%, respectively, Descartes said.<\/p>\n Top\u00a0imports\u00a0<\/span>from China included furniture, bedding, plastic goods, machinery, toys and sporting goods.<\/p>\n The United States and China agreed to a 90-day\u00a0paus<\/span>e on punitive tit-for-tat tariffs last month. U.S. and Chinese officials met in London on Monday to defus<\/span>e the high-stakes trade dispute between the world’s largest economies.<\/p>\n Port executives and shipping consultants expect volume from China to rebound during the tariff truce, albeit at a more moderate level. That’s becaus<\/span>e the U.S. lowered the tariff for many goods from China to 30% during the paus<\/span>e.<\/p>\n “China-origin\u00a0imports\u00a0<\/span>may continue to soften in the months ahead as importers reassess sourcing strategies amid rising landed costs,” Descartes said.<\/p>\n (Reuters\/Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Rod Nickel and Cynthia Osterman)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. seaborne\u00a0imports\u00a0of goods from China dropped 28.5% year-over-year in May, the sharpest decline since the pandemic, as President Donald Trump’s 145% tariffs took hold, supply chain technology provider Descartes said on Monday. China is the top U.S. supplier of goods that enter through seaports, including the nation’s busiest in Los Angeles\/Long Beach. Domestic businesses ranging …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/61914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}