{"id":31103,"date":"2026-10-06T13:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/5059-freight-gap-meets-tariffs-what-really-decides-asian-sourcing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:54:03","slug":"5059-freight-gap-meets-tariffs-what-really-decides-asian-sourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/5059-freight-gap-meets-tariffs-what-really-decides-asian-sourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"$5,059 freight gap meets tariffs: What really decides Asian sourcing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/314\/textile-freight-awaiting-customs-clearance_325579.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A freight divide of roughly $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>,<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per forty-foot equivalent unit is splitting the landed-cost economics of Asian apparel between the United States and Europe. Prime analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/market-intelligence\/texpro-textile-and-apparel\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: rgb(1, 103, 223); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;\" target=\"_blank\">TexPro<\/a> trade data, official import statistics, and the latest freight benchmarks shows the gap can overturn narrow factory-price advantages. Yet <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> trade flows show that freight is not destiny. Tariffs, preferences, product mix, demand, and route risk are deciding competitiveness together.<\/p>\n<h3>\t<strong>Freight has flipped the sourcing equation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Baltic Exchange put China and East Asia to the United States (US) West Coast at $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>,<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per forty-foot equivalent unit (FEU) on October <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>, versus $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>,<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> to North Europe, a $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>,<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> gap. Xeneta independently measured a $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>,<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> spread on October <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n        <ph name=\"Courtsey\"\/>&#13;\n    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/-5-059-freight-gap-meets-tariffs-what-really-decides-asian-sourcing--314002-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A freight divide of roughly $*,*** per forty-foot equivalent unit is splitting the landed-cost economics of Asian apparel between the United States and Europe. Prime analysis of TexPro trade data, official import statistics, and the latest freight benchmarks shows the gap can overturn narrow factory-price advantages. Yet **** trade flows show that freight is not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}