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Despite tough trade talk by Trump, US lobster likely to soon face bigger EU tariffs

The US president has threatened to tax European cars to pressure a reduction in tariffs on US lobster but the EU is poised to instead raise the rates on the crustaceans

By Jason Huffman | June 23, 2020 16:28 BST
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A big banded "select" lobster on a wharf near the US town of Rockland, Maine. Photograph by Jason Huffman.
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US seafood exporters might've cheered president Donald Trump's bravado when he threatened two weeks ago to raise taxes on European cars in order to pressure the European Union into wiping out its tariffs on US lobsters in the same way it did for their Canadian cousins [...]

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