Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge sees record daily vehicle traffic

The Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) saw more than 20,000 inbound and outbound vehicles on Saturday, a daily record since 2023.

The 55-km-long HZMB, linking China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Macao SAR, and the city of Zhuhai in south China's Guangdong Province, is the world's longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing.

The daily traffic flow on Saturday was the highest since China launched special schemes on northbound travel for Hong Kong and Macao vehicles in 2023.

The schemes allow eligible private cars from Hong Kong and Macao to travel to Zhuhai via the HZMB without having to obtain regular quotas.

From February 15, one day before the Spring Festival holiday officially began, to Saturday, the bridge saw a total of 114,000 trips made by vehicles from Hong Kong and Macao, according to data from Zhuhai port.

Throughout the Spring Festival holiday that ends on Monday, the bridge handled more than 567,000 passenger trips made by Hong Kong and Macao residents, marking a year-on-year increase of 8.1 percent. Family trips and parent-child tours constituted the main flow of passengers.

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge sees record daily vehicle traffic

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will stop collecting tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) starting Tuesday.

The move follows the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Friday, which found the Trump administration's broad use of IEEPA to impose tariffs unlawful.

The CBP also notes that the suspension does not affect other tariffs currently in effect from the Trump administration.

Additionally, on Friday, following the Supreme Court's ruling, Trump announced a 10 percent import tariff on global goods for 150 days under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, to replace the tariffs deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court.

On Saturday, Trump posted on social media that he would raise the rate of the "global import tariff" on imported goods to the United States, which he announced the previous day, from 10 percent to 15 percent.

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