While business has been steady for Gretchen Blough, a customs-brokerage manager in Erie, Pa., it’s also been plagued by uncertainty.
One of the biggest issues is a shipping backlog at the ports, which is causing long delays. But there’s also a new trade policy agenda under President Joe Biden, which could lead to changes in the tariffs that the Trump administration placed on imported Chinese goods.
Her clients ask “‘Well, when are they going away?’” Blough told “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal. “And I don’t have a crystal ball. I don’t know.”
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