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US lobster prices hold steady as trade war shakes wholesalers

Four charter planes were set to take 400t of lobster from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to China and South Korea this week, sources tell Undercurrent 

By Jason Huffman | July 25, 2018 18:14 BST
A lobster bake in Stonington Harbor, Maine. Photograph courtesy of the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative.
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China’s retaliatory 25% tariff has cut several lobster exporters in the US state of Maine deep since it went into effect almost three weeks ago, but it so far hasn’t made any kind of a significant dent on prices, wholesalers told Undercurrent News [...]

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