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Lobster exports out of Maine are free-falling this year as a result of trade hostilities between the United States and lobster-hungry China, the Associated Press reports. The country, which has become a huge customer for the U.S. lobster industry, issued tariffs on many food products in July 2018, including American lobsters. The higher cost has pushed Chinese customers to look farther north for the coveted crustacean. Now, lobstermen in Canada, who catch the same species of lobster as American suppliers, are profiting off the slack. Canadas lobster exports neared $200 million through June, while Americas exports through June were valued at less than $19 millionover $70 million less than the previous year. Despite sustained domestic demand, the Chinese tariffs have taken a toll on lobster businesses in Maine, forcing some to lay off workers working in wholesale. China is so large that you have to look at a number of new markets to replace that business, said Marianne LaCroix, Executive Director of the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-lobster-exports-to-china-freefalling-amid-trade-dispute?ref=home
delisen
(6,044 posts)thanks to Trump and those Americans fishing for lobster are unemployed thanks to Trump
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)since they are being over-fished, probably not the worst thing on the planet. It isn't like those out there harvesting don't know that. Some are climate change deniers who would haul in the very last one and then whine about how he has no job 'cause all the lobsters are gone.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Can it be all bad to give our lobster stocks some breathing room to regenerate?
Volaris
(10,272 posts)I've been wondering...there's gotta be a way, right?
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)ronharold
(33 posts)Rock lobster? Going down.....