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What does Donald Trump have to do with the crisis in the port of Los Angeles?

Former United States President Donald Trump.

Former United States President Donald Trump.

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“Are thousands and thousands the containers that we currently have in the port ”, he said the commissioner of the Port of Los Angeles, Lucía Moreno.

In the port – which receives 40% of the imports that arrive in the country-there are more than 100 cargo ships waiting to enter their terminals, which marks a new record for the place.

The commissioner, interviewed by Univision 34, regrets that “There’s no space”For them or for the 45 more that will arrive in the next few hours.

Moreno considers that for years there have been the causes that led to the current situation, and that the pandemic only exacerbated them. He adds that the solution is far from simple.

Three fundamental reasons

In 2019, the then president Trump announced a 30% increase in tariffs on Chinese products, prompting large importers to buy en masse before the mandate took effect. “Many importers who had the resources rushed to place large orders”, The media cites Moreno.

To avoid new government taxation, the country’s large retailers they advanced their purchases by up to one or two years, without knowing that the pandemic months ahead would paralyze the entire world.

Precisely the covid-19 is another cause, which forced to slow down dock operations by the paralysis of the companies that rent the terminals. AND the warehouses were filled with massive purchases, but they did not see an exit because during 2020 the businesses considered non-essential had the curtains down.

And, on the other hand, Moreno assures that the lack of truckers dates from even before 2019, due to the questionable working conditions for this group.

One of the conclusions is that there is no shortage as such, because the required merchandise is trapped in the containers, waiting for the necessary procedures to take place to leave the port. But that they are more than 3,500 containers makes those processes take longer than normal.

Commissioner Moreno assures that, to reach the solution, a joint work between the port administration, the companies that operate the terminals and the federal government make arrangements to facilitate the processes.

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