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Container Bytes #49: The Washington Summit, Post-Peak Ocean Cooling, and German Strike Threats
Welcome back to Container Bytes! 📍 Julia Frohwein and Judah Levine analyze a pivotal week as President Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Washington DC seeking fragile trade stability.
In this episode, we break down the high-stakes summit and why a 3-to-6-month extension of the trade truce is expected, holding off recommended 7.5% Section 301 excess capacity tariffs that would push duties back to IEEPA levels. We examine how this truce prevents a return of $1 million retaliatory port call fees on Chinese-linked vessels.
We also dive into the ocean container market, where Transpacific rates hold…
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