# Industry Seeks to Quash Trump Idea of Shifting Inland Waterways Funding to Tolls

> The Trump administration proposed lockage fees or tolls on barges to fund inland waterway lock-and-dam upgrades, including a $108 million annual user fee in the FY2018 budget. Industry groups say the fees would reduce prices paid to farmers at river terminals.

- Date: 2017-06-09 · published 2017-06-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/70680-industry-seeks-to-quash-trump-idea-of-shifting-inland-waterways-funding-to-tolls
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Barge tolls would raise freight costs for grain shipped on the Mississippi, Illinois and Ohio rivers, lowering farm-gate bids and widening export basis.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: bearish ▼
- CORN: bearish ▼
- BARGE: bullish ▲

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| SOY | 2019-09-30 | [Lack of Funding for U.S. Internal Waterways System Threatens to Damage Agricultural Production and Shipping - FreightWaves](https://feedsoft.ai/events/57252-lack-of-funding-for-u-s-internal-waterways-system-threatens-to-damage.md) | +3.8% | +4.2% |
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## Sources

- dtnpf.com: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2017/06/09/industry-seeks-quash-trump-idea

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