The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the busiest container port complex in the U.S., are feeling the impact of fluctuating import tariffs introduced by President Trump. This dynamic is threatening their established economic framework, which has generated billions in revenue and employment. Previously developed from marshy beginnings, the ports have become crucial links in global supply chains, moving goods predominantly from China. They are now at a crossroads, facing the need for reinvention amid shifting trade policies and economic pressures.
The yo-yoing import tariffs imposed by President Trump have been toying with the massive twin-engine economies of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The ports had to invent themselves in the first place, out of muddy marshes and shallows, to become present-day enterprises doing billions of dollars of business.
Together, their operations range more than 15,000 acres on land and water, and two years ago they rang up almost $22 billion in what's called direct revenue.
...tariffs taffy-pulling may spur another moment for reinvention.
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