White House delays furniture tariff increases for a year
The U.S. is pushing back duty increases due to “productive negotiations” with trading partners, keeping the current 25% rate in effect.
The U.S. is pushing back duty increases due to “productive negotiations” with trading partners, keeping the current 25% rate in effect.
Months of frontloading explain the sharp volume slowdown in the final months of 2025, and with consumer sentiment weak and long-term trade policies still uncertain, US retailers are keeping inventories lean in early 2026.
The use of real-time cargo status data is expected to make trade finance more efficient, reducing credit costs and processing and payment times, the Hong Kong government said.
While some gateways are expanding their intermodal access to vie for discretionary cargo destined for inland locations, others are moving full speed ahead with capacity expansions that will allow them to handle more and larger ships.
While Union Pacific plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make a combined railroad run smoothly, there are locations where service could degrade should the merger be approved by federal regulators.
With demand conditions unlikely to improve in the short term, LTL carriers are putting more of their capacity, old and new, into reserve.
While container trade between the South Pacific and USEC was flat prior to 2021, it has shown growth since then, albeit from a small base.
Developers expect vacancy rates to drop as shippers that had been paralyzed by US tariff uncertainty set more long-term plans in motion.
Airlines will continue to adjust capacity to account for shifts in volume, but the volatility of US trade policy and continued demand growth fueled by the AI boom will make this more difficult.
The fee — generally in the range of $200 per TEU and $450 per FEU — was introduced by the carrier in January 2024 following the industry-wide rerouting of vessels via the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.