Prior to the high tariffs threatened by President Trump on Saturday, the United States does not seem to work in cooperation with Mexico and Canada.
Trump said that the United States has applied 25 % of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, saying that “it is allowed to enter and Fentanyl will enter.”
In particular, customs duties will significantly increase import costs, as Trump is not applicable to most products based on trade contracts signed in 2020. Canada and Mexico account for 30 % of US trade. Many industries may add at additional costs, such as the huge amount of automotive businesses that spans the US border between Mexico and Canada.
Mr. Trump was a candidate of the President, saying that if Canada and Mexico decide that they are doing more to deal with his complaints, he can withdraw his threats and reduce tariffs. One Howard Rutonic proposed on Wednesday.
As the deadline for tariffs is approaching, some data shows that the amount of cargo on roads and railway is large, but the increase is not particularly large, and transportation experts will deal with railway and truck transport companies. He says he has the ability. According to them, this situation is completely different from 2021 and 2022, which supports the imported floods overwhelming the supply chain, increasing the shipping cost, and promoting the rapid acceleration of inflation.
“The industry was probably not in a place to deal with significant changes in the market,” said Scott Shannon, Vice President of North American Crossborder of CHOBINSON, a freight transport company.
Larry Gross, president of Gross Transportation Consulting, said that transportation containers for each railway had risen 10 % in the first four weeks in North America, compared to the same period in 2024. Perhaps he said that he had contributed to the increase, and other factors also played a role. The big one was a desire to be shipped before a strike in the east and the Port on the Gulf, which began in mid -January but could have been avoided.
“All systems have restrictions,” Glos said. “However, the network is much better than the beginning of the pandemic,” he has not displayed a warning sign because he has a shortage of crew and locomotives. He described the regulated data that indicates whether it is running.
Jason Miller, a professor of a supply chain management at Michigan State University, pointed out that stock storage could prevent companies from accelerating imports, such as raising and paying warehouse space.
The United States also imports a large number of products from China. Trump said on Saturday that he was trying to impose a 10 % tariff on Chinese products.
Imports from China mainly arrive from the port. In addition, the amount of containers from the US port has been powerful in recent months, but the port and railway, which moves cargo inland, did not have any problems with recent amounts of processing.
Some companies are concerned that applying tariffs to the current lack of products may delay customs on the border between Mexico and Canada. However, Adam Lewis, a co -founder and president of Clearit, an online custom broker, said he did not expect new tariffs to make new tariffs difficult for Brokers.
He said that the broker software could take some time, saying that he could manually perform new tasks related to tariffs without any problems. “It's a business as usual,” Lewis said.
However, if US customs and border security increase monitoring and guarantee that companies are compliant, delays may occur. The agency did not comment.
