Port of Los Angeles<\/a>.\n \t \t\t<\/p>\n\u201cOur strong cargo volumes do not suggest we are not being affected by tariffs,\u201d Hacegaba said Feb. 25, noting that last year\u2019s iron and steel tonnage was down 32%.<\/p>\n
Toys and sports equipment declined 15%, while there was also a 43% decline in synthetic fiber imports and a 21% drop in salt, sulfur and cement, he said.\n \t\t<\/p>\n
Loaded import containers declined last month by 13.1% to 409,818 20-foot equivalent units, or TEUs. Export containers were nearly flat at 99,478, and empty containers moving through the Port of Long Beach fell 11.5% to 338,470, according to\u00a0port data.<\/p>\n
Uncertainty over the administration\u2019s response to last week\u2019s Supreme Court\u00a0decision\u00a0invalidating the key plank of Trump\u2019s global tariffs adds to volatility and unpredictability in the supply chain, Hacegaba said.<\/p>\n
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Feb. 25 that it could take\u00a0\u201ca couple months\u201d\u00a0for the administration to re-establish Trump\u2019s tariff regime in ways that uphold existing agreements.<\/p>\n
A 10% worldwide levy took effect Feb. 24, and in the ensuing 24 hours, the administration offered few details about how it would follow through on the president\u2019s threat to raise the duty to 15%<\/a> while honoring pacts with major trading partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(halbergman\/Getty Images) February 26, 2026 9:08 AM, EST Imports through California\u2019s Port of Long Beach dropped 13% in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6899,131,133,132,3359,3429,3236],"class_list":{"0":"post-194883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-imports","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-news","12":"tag-port-of-long-beach","13":"tag-tariffs","14":"tag-trade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}