Container imports in the United States decrease sharply, indicating that the increasing definitions may begin to withdraw on economic momentum. According to the latest Container A report from the charging analyst John Makkon, sizes contained in the ten largest American ports by 7.9 % on an annual basis in June-the second monthly decrease in a row after a 6.6 % decrease in May.
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The recession follows April strongly, which saw a 9.6 % increase, but Q2 2025 ended with a total decrease of 1.8 % in incoming containers – decreased sharply from 9.6 % growth in the first quarter. The sizes of the folders issued 5 % decreased in June.
MCCOWN data draws a flagrant contrast with 2024, when the container sizes rose 15.2 % annually. “There is now a decrease in the annual general size in 2025,” as he writes, one of the most important changes on an annual basis in the history of the United States container for 60 years.
Historically, the incoming sizes of GDP growth – often exceeded a wide margin – which makes this shrinkage to particularly noticeable. McCown notes that the annual decreases in US container imports occurred only twice: during the global financial crisis and the epidemic. Both rings were short -term, and up to 2024 volumes that exceeded those that were seen during the peak of the epidemic in 2022.
While the June volume of the inserted increased by 1.8 % from May to 1.88 million degrees, it remained less than 4.7 % less than an average of 59 months, indicating a continuous drop direction. MCCOWN is primarily attributed to the tariff, and warns that the current contraction does not seem short -term, and that important commercial barriers are likely to continue through the remainder of the current administration.
In the future, MCCOWN highlights the graphics of the October Schedule planned in USTR, as it targeted Chinese or Chinese ships, as another pressure point. It describes it as “another form of tariff”
It also warns of increasing the instability of the supply chain, as some importers abandon the shipments completely when the definitions exceed the value of their goods. This has created irregular charging patterns that can cause bottlenecks that remind us of congestion of the epidemic.
The report ends with a blatant barter: “The lower the size of the most contained containers to the United States, the more trading and growth are affected-but we say inflation.
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