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Shipbuilding the new front in America's trade war against China?
On October 3,
the United States released details of hiked payment guidelines for port fees on vessels linked to China,
which are set to take effect next week.
This is the result of a so-called 301 investigation and report by the Office of the United States Trade Representative,
or USTR, which accuses China of unreasonable targeting for dominance in the maritime,
logistics and shipbuilding sectors.
Now the U.S. started to take a real hard look at China's shipbuilding industry and launched the investigation in April last year under the Biden administration.
Now the Trump administration is carrying forward this campaign allegedly in an attempt to revitalize U.S. shipbuilding.
Which, what specifically, will be charged on Chinese-made ships?
Are these moves really about boosting U.S. competitiveness?
What impact might these measures have on the global shipping industry and trade?
Welcome to The Point, with me, Liu Xin, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.
I'm pleased to be joined from Beijing by Joe Meade,
Deputy Director of the Institute of American and Oceania Study at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Corporation,
from Brisbane, Australia, by Professor Warwick Powell,
a junk professor of Queensland University of Technology,
and here in the studio by Ina Tang and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation,