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US will impose fees of $50/net ton (nt) on Chinese ship operators and owners starting this fall and fees of $18/nt on Chinese-built ships, according to new trade policies released today.

The rules, released by the US Trade Representative late Thursday, would be applied to ships as they called on the US. The rules also take aim at foreign-built vehicle carriers, assessing $150 for every car or vehicle the ship carries, starting in 180 days.

For a 182,000 deadweight tonnes (dwt) Capesize vessel owned by a Chinese operator, which commonly carries dry bulk commodities like grains, the fee would be nearly $3mn.

The fees would increase by $30 year for the following three years. For a Chinese-built Capesize the fee would be around $1mn.

The closely-watched proposals — part of President Donald Trump's plan to kick-start a flagging US shipbuilding industry and challenge Chinese dominance in the sector — were the subject of hearings and public comments last month in Washington, DC.

The original proposal included fees of up to $1.5mn per port call for ships based on the percentage of Chinese-built vessels in an operator's fleet. But the plans released Thursday back off some of the worst-case scenarios.

The fees would be assessed for every voyage to the US, not for every port of call - meaning a ship that calls on multiple US ports on a trip would only be assessed the fees once.

The fees will not be stacked and will also not be assessed on any single ship more than five times per year.

The fees will not apply to Chinese-built ships that are owned by certain US companies, engaged in a voyages of less than 2,000 nautical miles, and vessels with capacities of less than 55,000 dwt or 80,000 dwt for bulkers. The weight limits mean that nearly all asphalt, coal and petcoke vessels would be exempted.

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