Indian warmwater shrimp spared from US’ six-country DST-related tariff list
As trade actions go, the latest sect. 301-related move being threatened by the new US president Joe Biden administration could've been much worse for the seafood industry
‘Buckle up’ for ‘turbulent’ 2021 US scallop ride, say Bristol Seafood execs
'All I've got to say is, 'Buckle up because 2021 is going to be a turbulent year'' -- Michael Lodato, vice president of sales for US-based Bristol Seafood
Trade likely on menu when US, China officials meet for first time since Biden elected
US secretary of state Tony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan are to meet next week with Chinese counterparts Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi in Anchorage, Alaska
Price pressure building for US imports of blue, red swimming crab
The US was on pace to import 9% less blue and red swimming crab overall in 2020, contributing to reduced supply and higher prices, based on NOAA data
US shrimp imports were rock steady in November
The year behind us could be called anything but steady, but that’s how US shrimp import volumes and prices are ending 2020
Outgoing USTR Lighthizer encourages Biden to keep pressure on China
'I think in some parts [China has] done a reasonably good job, in other parts they haven’t' -- Robert Lighthizer, outgoing US Trade Representative
US state of Maine to launch seafood branding initiative with COVID relief funds
'Maine knows seafood' -- Jeff Nichols, Maine Department of Marine Resources
Despite pandemic, US shrimp imports on pace to finish 8% ahead of 2019
The US imported 78,731 metric tons of shrimp worth $693.1 million in October, a 6% increase in volume and 5% increase in value over October 2019
Trump’s best seafood trade move MIA in administration’s final days
'In short, federal trade policy is spectacularly and consistently failing our industry' -- Stephanie Madsen, At-Sea Processors Association
Canadian lobster dock prices plummeted weeks before ‘Dumping Day’
Just weeks before Canada is set to open its biggest lobster fishing areas, harvesters there have seen dock prices dive as much as CAD 4.00/lb