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,