At the start of the summer, a group of officials from Maine wrote to President Donald Trump, urging financial support for the state’s iconic lobster industry.
China was once the second-largest importer of Maine lobster, but then Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs hit.
In 2018, the market died and US lobster exports to China fell by 80% compared with a year earlier, when Chinese lobster lovers bought $128.5 million of the crustacean.
But China has not lost its taste for the delicacy; it is getting lobsters from somewhere else.
The shift illustrates how Trump’s trade war is reshaping the global economy, sometimes in ways that hurt his own country.
Over the first half of 2019, Canadian lobster sale
Sep 06, 2019