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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent

Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports

Ships unload cargo containers at the Port of Los Angeles
Ships unload cargo containers at the Port of Los Angeles. Economists have warned that Trump’s trade battles will lead to a slowdown in global trade. Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA

Donald Trump’s increasingly erratic trade war has triggered a slump in shipments to the US’s most important ports, amid the growing risk of a recession in the world’s largest economy.

In the latest sign of the US president’s tariff policies rattling the economy, figures show the number of vessels scheduled to arrive at the Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third on the same period a year earlier.

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