Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) cautioned the Trump administration against charging Chinese-built or -operated ships $1 million to access U.S. ports.

“At a time when the price of inputs is already high, this port fee will be another added cost to family farmers – making their already tight margins even tighter. The Administration’s ship tax would make it more expensive to do business at U.S. ports, drive up costs for U.S. producers, increase uncertainty about whether they can export their products and push our foreign customers into the arms of competing countries where port access is cheaper. Reshoring shipbuilding would create jobs and improve national security, but it cannot be done overnight.