{"id":12334,"date":"2025-04-09T00:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T00:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/trumps-sweeping-tariffs-what-does-it-mean-for-trucking\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T00:18:14","slug":"trumps-sweeping-tariffs-what-does-it-mean-for-trucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/trumps-sweeping-tariffs-what-does-it-mean-for-trucking\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Sweeping Tariffs: What Does It Mean for Trucking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs are expected to have significant repercussions for the U.S. economy and the health of the trucking industry.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0analysts predicted national freight demand would grow moderately throughout the year. However, market paralysis and tariffs have damaged that optimism. Industries affected by the tariffs, directly or indirectly, will likely have weaker freight demand.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0American Trucking Associations said in response to the news:\u00a0\u201cNotably, today\u2019s announcement excluded additional tariffs on Canada and Mexico, a welcome reprieve as it relates to cross-border freight. That said, the tariffs &#8230; have potential to depress freight volumes and increase equipment costs for our industry. We continue to express these concerns directly to Administration officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Uber Freight noted that the tariffs could damage manufacturing&#8217;s productivity.\u00a0\u201cTariffs add cost pressures to an already fragile manufacturing sector. Supply chain executives are signaling concerns that higher trade barriers will lead to reduced production, job cuts and rising inflation,\u201d Mazen Danaf, senior economist for Uber Freight, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Read more in an\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_9363cd28-4d8d-4a24-b872-ecf68afdc189&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq6cv35cnu6yxvecnt2wrvfdmqpwtbqecqp2wkmd5hprt9f6muk4dtt6gtkjbvme9upuw1dd5pq0vvkcntjuwvqcnjq0ubecwpprub2cnt62x39dxq2ut31f4pq8rbjd5k6cwtdd1gq4vb9dtkjux3jenhppubecxtjuwk5cdqqctbjf4pp6u31dthpawr&amp;n=9\" href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_9363cd28-4d8d-4a24-b872-ecf68afdc189&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq6cv35cnu6yxvecnt2wrvfdmqpwtbqecqp2wkmd5hprt9f6muk4dtt6gtkjbvme9upuw1dd5pq0vvkcntjuwvqcnjq0ubecwpprub2cnt62x39dxq2ut31f4pq8rbjd5k6cwtdd1gq4vb9dtkjux3jenhppubecxtjuwk5cdqqctbjf4pp6u31dthpawr&amp;n=9\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">article from FleetOwner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs are expected to have significant repercussions for the U.S. economy and the health of the trucking industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[173],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-12334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-american-trucking-associations-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12335,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334\/revisions\/12335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12334"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=12334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}