President Donald Trump’s trade war is hitting West Coast ports, the entry point for goods from China, with dozens of ships cancelling planned arrivals and layoffs already hitting workers.

With the first of several wage hikes for airport and hotel workers scheduled to go into effect on July 1, a coalition of L.A. business leaders has urged the City Council to hold off on the increases.

An aerial view of shipping containers sitting stacked at the Port of Los Angeles on April 15, 2022 in San Pedro, California. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

Today on AirTalk, US and Chinese officials have reached a deal to pause most of their recent tariffs; how college students and professors are interacting with AI in school; the impacts of the 1992 'Watts Truce' between LA gangs and AirTalk at Dodger Stadium.

This week began with the Trump Administration and the Chinese government announcing a 90-day pause in the steep tariffs the two nations had traded in recent weeks.

The tariffs are levied on “just about every trade lane we have,” said Joe Harris ... Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, which had an economic impact of $311 billion in 2021, told Bloomberg last week that they’ve seen roughly ...

A new report showed inflation eased in April but it may be the last good report the country sees before the impact of President Trump's tariffs hit the economy. NBC News' Christine Romans explains more.

The trade war between the United States and China has become noticeable on the American front. Chinese shipments to U.S. ports have dropped noticeably