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Fortune
Alena Botros

Port of L.A. executive director says retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left amid U.S.-China trade war

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  • The U.S.-China trade war fallout has begun. The Port of Los Angeles anticipates plummeting cargo traffic until a deal on tariffs is reached, but the Trump administration has not indicated whether negotiations are happening. Time is running out, a JPMorgan chief market strategist said.

The U.S.-China trade war has begun, so say goodbye to the goods. The Port of Los Angeles anticipates a drop-off in imports next week compared to a year ago, totaling more than a third of typical incoming cargo traffic. 

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