“It’s good and bad,” said Manu Logai with a shrug. The 59-year-old longshoreman with 30 years on the job has lived through enough economic upheaval to become almost immune to the latest market jolts. “If you want to make a statement to the world, then you’ve got to do something to show them that you mean business.”

Logai, formerly a Democrat but now a Trump voter, is willing to endure some economic pain while the tariffs bed in. “If you want to use [tariffs], you have to live with the consequences,” he said. “We’ll get the point across to the world, we mean business. Do you want an even trade? No longer are you going to take advantage because we have weak leaders.”

Some of Logai’s colleagues are even more forthright. Upon overhearing the word tariff in the line at Berth-55, one man’s head quickly turned and he shouted “more” to laughter from his friends.

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