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- The Panama Canal Authority chief said giving preferential treatment to one country's ships would lead to "chaos."
- Ricaurte Vásquez Morales told The Wall Street Journal: "Rules are rules — and there are no exceptions."
- Trump has accused the canal authority of charging "exorbitant" fees to US ships.
Giving US ships preferential rates to navigate the Panama Canal would "lead to chaos," the head of the canal authority said.
"Rules are rules — and there are no exceptions," Ricaurte Vásquez Morales told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
"We cannot discriminate for the Chinese, or the Americans, or anyone else. This will violate the neutrality treaty, international law and it will lead to chaos."
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