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New Tariffs From China Could Hit Maine’s Lobster Industry Hard

Maine businesses are largely unscathed by the new tariffs China is imposing on U.S. products. But there’s one big exception – lobster.

Wade Merritt, the president of the Maine International Trade Center, says early salvos in the developing trade war between the U.S. and China didn’t seem too bad. But the tariffs China just announced came on like a summer thunderstorm, and they will hit about one-quarter of all of Maine’s exports abroad.

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