{"id":545251,"date":"2026-07-17T00:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545251\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:32:33","slug":"donald-trump-reportedly-reversed-hormuz-toll-decision-after-pressure-from-gulf-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545251\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump reportedly reversed Hormuz toll decision after pressure from Gulf States"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump\u2019s Monday announcement that the US would charge a fee<\/a> for commercial vessels to transit through the Strait of Hormuz triggered a flurry of activity among Gulf State leadership and White House aides attempting to dissuade him from implementing the plan, according to a CNN report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Several sources familiar with the matter told CNN that the US\u2019s Gulf allies and many Trump aides were shocked when Trump, in a post on Truth Social, described the 20% fee on cargo as “necessary to do the job of providing safety and security<\/a>\u201d in the waterway.<\/p>\n

According to CNN, Trump\u2019s advisors warned him that mandating the fees could undermine the US\u2019s goals in the Strait of Hormuz and potentially validate, in Tehran\u2019s eyes, Iran\u2019s continued aggression<\/a> towards commercial vessels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite objections from within the White House, Trump\u2019s announcement prompted a scramble to outline the logistics of such a tolling system, according to CNN, with staff working to determine exactly who would pay the fees and how they would be collected.<\/p>\n

At the same time, leaders of US allies in the Gulf<\/a> reportedly began trying to contact Trump to convince him to reverse the toll decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to CNN, appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar.<\/p>\n

One day after announcing the fee, Trump reversed his decision, stating that the proposed toll would be replaced by US-Gulf State investment deals, potentially with Gulf leadership that had advocated against the proposed fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s Monday announcement that the US would charge a fee for commercial vessels to transit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,83420,42,87,43,114994,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-545251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf-states","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}