Container port terminals in the USA are pleading with the government to remove gantry cranes critical to the flow of U.S. imports and exports from Chinese import tariffs.
They hope to avoid a proposed 25 percent tariff on products which make up $300 billion of imports from China.
In 2018, port and terminal operators negotiated the container gantry cranes off the first two rounds of tariffs on Chinese imports.
China is one of the few countries which make gantry cranes to service the longer, wider container ships which are now calling more frequently at U.S. ports.