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From cans to cartons: how Trump's metals duties affect packages on shelves
Andy Russick, who sells canned fruit and tomatoes to top U.S. grocers like Kroger, hospitals and schools, shares the stated aim behind U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war - fighting cheap Chinese imports. Yet when U.S. tariffs on imported steel and aluminum doubled to 50 per cent on June 4, his company, canned-food maker Pacific Coast Producers, became collateral damage in the crossfire of Trump's erratic trade policies.The problem is that since 2017, Chinese fruit cocktails, vegetables and similar canned-food imports from across Southeast Asia and Europe have been flooding the shelves of U.S. supermarkets, ... (full story)