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Source: Washington Post
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The legislation would change the Harbor Maintenance Tax and give shippers “new incentives to move their goods through American ports-particularly those in the Pacific Northwest,” said Senator Murray.
A US Senate bill could go forward next month that will propose a repeal of the existing Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) replacing it with a fee to be levied on goods imported by road and rail from Canada and Mexico.
The HMT is a federal tax imposed on the value of the goods being shipped through US ports. … The HMT is not assessed on importers who route cargo through non-US ports and afterwards move their goods into US markets by land.
The “Maritime Goods Movement Act for the 21st Century” would repeal the HMT and replace it with a Maritime Goods Movement User Fee (MGMUF), the proceeds of which would be fully available to Congress to provide for port operation and maintenance, and which would “ensure that shippers cannot avoid the MGMUF by using ports in Canada and Mexico.”
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From KIRO News:
The Longshoremen’s Union has been picketing the Seattle tunnel project site since Tuesday, claiming it was promised four jobs removing dirt from the boring machine. The pickets have kept the building trades union workers, who have the contract for removing the dirt, from accessing the site.
Those unions, the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters and the National Construction Alliance, have filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against the longshoremen for blocking them from working.
But there is a time concern here. The ILWU’s action could force tunneling to stop. There is only so much room at Terminal 46 to pile up the dirt being removed by the boring machine.
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