The East Coast and Gulf Coast seaports that would be affected by a longshoremen’s strike are accounting for almost 60 percent of all containerized U.S. imports.

It's increasingly likely that thousands of dockworkers at major ports along the East and Gulf coasts will strike on Oct. 1, those close to the parties tell Axios. Why it matters: Americans would feel this one.

All those supplies that are either going into the country or out of the country are going to be sitting in these ships or sitting on the docks waiting to be loaded and backing up,” UNO economist Walter “Dub” Lane said to WWL’s Tommy Tucker.