After ten months of growth, in May 2025 the traffic of container in the Port of Los Angeles recorded a decrease of -4.8% that the port authority of the Californian port of call has entirely attributed to the impact on trade with the new tariffs introduced by US President Donald Trump. "May - specified Gene Seroka, director executive of the Port of Los Angeles - marked our volume of lowest monthly traffic in over two years. If the volume at May is generally higher than that of April with the approach of our traditional season of peak, our imports - he pointed out - have decreased by 19% compared to the previous month". "Unless global trade agreements are reached soon and - Seroka warned - we will probably see prices and a lower assortment of goods during the end-of-year festivities. Uncertainty generated by policies - he underlined - has caused difficulties for consumers, businesses and workers".

To underline the negative impact of the new duties on trade with and on the US economy itself, the Port of Los Angeles, Angeles called Ernie Tedeschi, director for the Economics of the Budget Lab research center at Yale, which presented an analysis on the effect of the new tariffs: "the Budget Lab - explained Germans - modeled the impact of tariffs on American households since the first announcements at the beginning of the year. The duties - he specified - average prices would increase by 1.5%, with a loss of power purchase of almost $2,500 per household per year. But this impact is not the same for all families or for all products: low-income and working-class households will be more impacted than higher-income households and the products that are most likely to be such as shoes, clothing and consumer electronics, will see double-digit percentage price increases."

Last month, containerized traffic in the port was equal to a total of 717 thousand TEUs compared to 753 thousand in May 2024. Both the full containers at disembarkation and full containers at embarkation which amounted to 356 thousand TEUs (-8.9%) and 121 thousand respectively TEU (-4.0%). The handling of empty containers has totaled 240 thousand TEUs (+1.8%).

In the first five months of 2025, global traffic amounted to 4.06 million TEUs, with an increase of +4.1% on the previous year. corresponding period of last year, of which 2.08 million TEUs full on landing (+2.0%), 595 thousand full TEUs on boarding (-10.3%) and 1.39 million empty TEUs (+15.7%).