{"id":13297,"date":"2025-10-14T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/us-china-begin-collecting-port-fees-on-each-others-vessels\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:18","slug":"us-china-begin-collecting-port-fees-on-each-others-vessels","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-china-begin-collecting-port-fees-on-each-others-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"US, China begin collecting port fees on each other\u2019s vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The United States (US) and China on Tuesday will begin charging port fees on ocean shipping firms that move everything from holiday toys to crude oil, making the high seas a key front in the trade war between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">China said it had started to collect the special charges on US-owned, operated, built, or flagged vessels but clarified that Chinese-built ships would be exempted from the levies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In details published on Tuesday by state broadcaster closed-circuit television, China spelled out specific provisions on exemptions, including for ships built by China and empty ships entering Chinese shipyards for repair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The China-imposed port fees would be collected at the first port of entry on a single voyage or for the first five voyages within a year, following an annual billing cycle beginning on April 17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Early this year, President Donald Trump\u2019s administration announced plans to levy the fees on China-linked ships to loosen that country\u2019s grip on the global maritime industry and bolster US shipbuilding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">An investigation during former President Joe Biden\u2019s administration concluded China uses unfair policies and practices to dominate the global maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors, clearing the way for those penalties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The US is scheduled to also begin collecting fees on October 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13298,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13297","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"US and China will begin charging port fees||US and China will begin charging port fees","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18482,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13297\/revisions\/18482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}