Seafood Headlines July 31, 2019
Trade tariffs take a big bite out of AK seafood sales with China
Numbers from the Trump administration’s yearlong trade war with China show big hits to US seafood sales. Last July 6, China placed a 25 percent tax on US imports to retaliate against $250 billion tariffs Trump placed on products coming from China to the US. Till then, China had been Alaska’s biggest export partner for seven years running, purchasing $800 million worth of wild seafood in 2017, a nearly 30 percent increase. To read the full article click here.
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