Hello everyone, in recent years, the game between China and the United States on commercial trade and other issues has begun to heat up again. First, the massive taxation of goods such as pharmaceutical furniture, China has been affected by a certain amount. Then the United States is pressuring other countries to impose tariffs on China on the grounds of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Now the United States is more in the issue of Chinese ships, ships owned or operated by Chinese enterprises, Chinese-owned ships and Chinese-built ships are charging port service fees, seriously violating the principles of international trade and China-US maritime agreements.

Since October 14, 2025, China will charge special port charges for ships owned by U.S. companies and individuals; ships owned or operated by the U.S. with more than 25% of the share; ships hanging U.S. flag; ships built in the U.S. will charge special port charges for ships, specific unit costs almost equal to those of the U.S. side.

It is clear that China¡¯s move is a precise counterattack to the U.S. port charges for Chinese ships, which also means that the two sides¡¯ war in the shipping field has completely broken out. Then the question arises, who is the bigger impact on the ship war? First look at China, where the total tonnage of Chinese shipowners currently account for 15.9 percent of the global market share, the world¡¯s first; while building more than 50 percent of the world¡¯s cargo ship manufacturing. And the U.S. as the world¡¯s largest consumer, the port throughput trade is really huge. In this case, the U.S. charges on China¡¯s relevant ships will obviously put a huge short-term pressure on China¡¯s shipbuilding industry, which is unavoidable to China¡¯s shipbuilding market competition around the world. But

In contrast to the U.S., the Trump administration is specifically aimed at the port policy of Chinese ships, essentially want to rob the shipbuilding cake from China's hands, revitalize the shrinking U.S. shipbuilding industry. The idea is undoubtedly good, but the dream of promoting the U.S. shipbuilding industry is obviously impossible to realize, because China is now on the U.S. related shipbuilding industry has also been equally suppressed, and the world's ten largest ports of goods are seated in China for eight seats, but the U.S. is not in the top enough to show the influence of Chinese ports trade. In this case, international buyers are naturally not able to choose to buy ships in the U.S. and the other bad effect is that the U.S. is

Therefore, a careful analysis of this Sino-US shipbuilding war shows that China's shipbuilding industry has been challenged, but it is not enough to offset China's advantage in the shipbuilding industry. As long as this advantage exists, China will still be the largest shipbuilding country. For the United States, China's reciprocal countermeasures will undoubtedly nip the United States 'dream of trying to revitalize the shipbuilding industry in the bud. It can neither compete with China in port throughput, nor compete with China in cost. So on the whole, the United States still suffers more.