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Ocean\u00a0imports\u00a0<\/span>to the United States may have peaked in July\u00a0after retailers raced to bring in goods from China and elsewhere to avoid potentially hefty tariffs on holiday-related products, the top executive from the\u00a0bus<\/span>iest U.S. seaport said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Container<\/span>ized\u00a0imports\u00a0<\/span>to the Port of Los Angeles, the front door to many U.S.\u00a0imports<\/span>, jumped 8% to 544,000 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs<\/span>) in July.<\/p>\n “Much of this volume was fueled by importers hus<\/span>tling to bring in cargo ahead of potential tariff hikes later this month and beyond,” Gene Seroka, the port’s executive director, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n “Everything is already here for the holiday season,” said Zachary Rogers, lead author of the Logistics Managers’ Index, which serves as an early indicator for economic activity in the United States.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, particularly short-lived 145% levies on goods from China, have wrecked havoc on U.S.\u00a0imports\u00a0<\/span>as buyers either gorged on or starved themselves of goods to avoid higher import duties.<\/p>\n The United States and China earlier this week extended their tariff truce by another 90 days, easing the uncertainty clouding the retail peak season for stocking stores with holiday goods.<\/p>\n As a result, major shippers like Walmart, Target and Home Depot appear to be breaking the traditional holiday-related import pattern that tended to peak from Augus<\/span>t to October.<\/p>\n (Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
August 13, 2025
\u00a9 Tom Nast – stock.adobe.com
Ocean\u00a0imports\u00a0to the United States may have peaked in July\u00a0after retailers raced to bring in goods from China and elsewhere to avoid potentially hefty tariffs on holiday-related products, the top executive from the\u00a0busiest U.S. seaport said on Wednesday. Containerized\u00a0imports\u00a0to the Port of Los Angeles, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65706","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\/65706","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=65706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/65707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n \u00a9 Tom Nast – stock.adobe.com
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