Response to tariffs by Chinese importers may see extra costs for US shippers
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For many US perishables exporters, 2019 is a year of exploring new markets. Hit hard by tariffs on produce going to China, they are trying to find clients in other parts of the world.
US cherry exporters are faced with a 52% Chinese tariff, so some have turned their back on this market and are shipping more to Hong Kong, Taiwan, South-east Asia and Korea, noted Chris Connell, senior vice-president North America of Commodity Forwarders, a subsidiary of Kuehne + Nagel.
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Joel Theasus
July 16, 2019 at 1:10 amOverall, I find the analysis informative, but I find your choice of some of your words unnecessarily offensive and patently shallow. That “China is more of a necessary evil than the land of opportunity that it was until last year” is a clearly politically motivated statement that skirts the core issue of US-initiated tariff war. The overall theme of the analysis is indisputably the debilitating effects of random US tariff by an inept US administration, yet somehow you must invent ways to pin the problem on China! To please your political masters behind the scene?
Alex Lennane
July 16, 2019 at 9:14 amHi Joel,
The phrase is a quote, rather than the writer’s choice – and while I agree of course that this is a situation initiated by the US, I think the point here is that it is now harder to export into China, but it is still necessary owing to the volumes. I think “necessary evil” is just a standard phrase meaning that showing that it is more difficult, rather than a politically motivated comment.