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'Nowhere to turn': Small businesses dependent on imports from China are feeling more desperate
By Mae Anderson
Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week as China tariffs start to bite
By Jesse Pound
What’s up with Elliott Bay’s missing cargo ships?
By Paul Roberts
Huge decline at L.A. port is a hit to truckers—and a stark warning of coming tariff damage
By John Roberts & Jeff John Roberts
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Opinion
Opinion | Beware, consumers, tariffs are already damaging the supply chain
By Jim Geraghty
UPS Earnings: Trump Aimed at China and Hit US Small Businesses Instead
By Thomas Black
Semafor Flagship: The memetic upstream of mainstream opinion
By Tom Chivers
Tariffs: Empty Shelves of the ‘Golden Age’
By Andrew Stuttaford
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Empty Retail Shelves Could Disrupt Back-To-School And Holiday Shopping
By Pamela N. Danziger
Your Home Without China
By Lazaro Gamio, Agnes Chang & Pablo Robles
Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports
By Richard Partington
Product shortages and empty store shelves loom with falling shipments from China
By Shannon Pettypiece
Impact of Trump’s trade war starts to emerge
By Prashant Rao
Demand slump fuelled by Trump tariffs hits US ports and air freight
By Peter Foster, Rafe Uddin & Patricia Nilsson
Oakland trucking companies hit by trade war weigh job cuts
By Jillian D'Onfro
80% of small businesses that buy from China could 'just die' because of Trump's tariffs, says logistics company CEO
By Shubhangi Goel
Retail wipeout: Trump tariffs stoke fears of shortages and price hikes
By Kelly Tyko & Nathan Bomey
Port of L.A. executive director says retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left amid U.S.-China trade war
By Alena Botros
Traffic at the Port of Los Angeles set to plunge amid tariffs
By Laurence Darmiento
Small businesses take big hit from Trump tariffs
By Taylor Delandro
’Nowhere to turn’: Small businesses dependent on imports from China are feeling more desperate
By Mae Anderson
Cargo Shipments From China to U.S. Slide Toward a Standstill
By Paul R. Berger
The trade war's wave of retail shortages will hit U.S. consumers in stages. Here's when
By Lori Ann LaRocco
Chinese freight ship traffic to busiest U.S. ports, Los Angeles, Long Beach, sees steep drop
By Lori Ann LaRocco
From Fake Eyelashes to Care Bears, U.S.-Bound Goods Are Stuck in Tariff Limbo
By Bob Tita & Jeanne Whalen
The worst is yet to come: Trump's tariffs could mean even higher prices and empty shelves within weeks
By Grace Eliza Goodwin, Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert & Lakshmi Varanasi
Hapag-Lloyd says 30% of China's US bound shipments have been cancelled
By Matthias Inverardi
Trump’s trade war has already sparked a massive cancellation of shipments from China to the U.S.
By Sasha Rogelberg
Trump’s tariffs threaten Southern California’s $300-billion trade industry, report says
By Malia Mendez
Plunging LA port volumes spell trouble for truckers
By John Paul Hampstead