Atlantic Container Line, an ocean carrier which handles large industrial items including the wings for Airbus planes, says it will be forced to abandon the U.S. market if the government follows through on threats to fine Chinese-built shipping vessels.
Its CEO Andrew Abbott tells CNBC that freight rates will head back to Covid surge levels and there will be no economic rationale to continue to operate as a niche freight company within the U.S.
“This hits American exporters and importers worse than anybody else,” says Abbott. “If this happens … we’re going to have to shut down.”
It would be the end of the treat era for USians. 
They had it made: China and the rest of the world shipped to the USA real, tangible goods in exchange for pieces of paper. But they got so crazy about those pieces of paper that they felt like this was a rip off, and blew up the whole system.