Source: Tom Karst, THE PACKER, 1/14/22


Hundreds of millions in U.S. fresh produce and nut export sales have been lost because of retaliatory tariffs, USDA economists report. And the toll keeps rising. Specialty crop losses from retaliatory tariffs put in place in 2018 by China, India and four other trading partners in response to U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and other tariffs on Chinese goods totaled $837 million in 2019.

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