The levies could hit virtually every ship calling at U.S. ports, foist up to $30 billion of annual costs on American consumers and double the cost of shipping U.S. exports,

The president told lawmakers on Tuesday that he plans to establish a new shipbuilding office to bring ship production back to the U.S.

This story has been updated to correct the background of a member of the White House’s new shipbuilding office. The Trump administration wants a sweeping government-wide overhaul of the U.S. commercial and military maritime sectors in an effort to catch up to China’s unrivaled shipbuilding capacity,

Shares of Huntington Ingalls Industries were sailing higher after President Donald Trump announced plans for the shipbuilding industry in his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. Shares of shipbuilder Huntington gained 11% to $190.

President Donald Trump’s Tuesday pledge to create a new White House Office of Shipbuilding could be a windfall for Mobile, a city where he had some of his earliest campaign successes in 2015. State and local officials believe Trump’s announcement promising tax incentives to bring more ship production back to the U.

Trump’s administration aims to pay for an American shipbuilding comeback with help from potentially hefty port fees on Chinese-built vessels as well as ships from fleets with Ch