{"id":13269,"date":"2025-07-22T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/tariffs-bring-uncertainty-to-trans-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:06:24","slug":"tariffs-bring-uncertainty-to-trans-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/tariffs-bring-uncertainty-to-trans-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs bring uncertainty to trans-Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A standout trade lane for Antwerp is the trans-Atlantic, where traffic with the US has continued its first-quarter growth through the first half, although the impact of tariffs hangs over the corridor.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cThe outlook for the second half of 2025 remains uncertain,\u201d the Antwerp-Bruges statement noted. \u201cMuch will depend on a potential trade agreement between the EU and the US by Aug. 1, which could restore greater certainty and predictability in the supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">But the likelihood of a US-EU trade deal appears to be diminishing. President Donald Trump sent a letter to Brussels this week threatening to impose 30% blanket tariffs on European imports beginning Aug. 1, surprising EU officials who thought they were close to a preliminary agreement with the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In response, Brussels is now readying a fresh list of American products to hit with retaliatory tariffs if a trade deal isn\u2019t reached by the deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">One of the sectors hardest hit by the US trade war is automotives. Vehicle exports via Antwerp to the US have seen a clear decline in the first half as tariffs dragged down the numbers. In the first six months of the year, 15.9% fewer new passenger cars and vans (76,089 units) and 31.5% fewer trucks and heavy vehicles (11,751 units) were exported, according to the port.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Antwerp data shows European first-half imports from the US increased 13.1% year over year to 9.7 million tons, with higher volumes in containers and liquid bulk. Exports to the US rose 23.5% to 6.7 million tons, driven mainly by fuels and dry bulk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Antwerp container exports to the US remained stable at 303,000 TEUs, while container imports rose 12.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Source:\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/strong-h1-volumes-space-crunch-keep-antwerp-terminals-under-pressure-6043917\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/strong-h1-volumes-space-crunch-keep-antwerp-terminals-under-pressure-6043917\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Journal of Commerce<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A standout trade lane for Antwerp is the trans-Atlantic, where traffic with the US has continued its first-quarter growth through the first half, although the impact of tariffs hangs over the corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1783],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-13269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-port-of-antwerp-bruges-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269","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=13269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13270,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions\/13270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13269"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=13269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}