Up to $1.5m fee for every Chinese-built box ship calling at a US port
Following its investigation into what it concluded was unfair Chinese state support of maritime supply chains, US trade representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer has proposed fees for China-built ships calling at US ports.
At their most extreme, the new fees could amount to $1.5m per ship call for any containerships built in Chinese shipyards, irrespective of the flag th…