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Trump’s New Land Port Maintenance Tax Shouldn’t Be Tariff Plan B

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Trump’s New Land Port Maintenance Tax Shouldn’t Be Tariff Plan B

  • By Andrew Leahey

The Trump administration’s newly floated 0.125% “land port maintenance tax,” pitched as a fix to align shippers using land ports with those subject to the Harbor Maintenance Fee, looks less like infrastructure policy and more like contingency planning now that the US Supreme Court has struck down the administration’s tariff program under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

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