Fish imported into China for reprocessing and re-export are not, at the moment, subject to the additional 25 percent tariff imposed by China on Friday on a wide range of US seafood exports, according to an email, obtained by IntraFish, from John Henderschedt, director of the Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection for NOAA Fisheries to executives in the US seafood industry.
Since Friday, the industry has faced conflicting reports over whether seafood such as Alaska pollock and salmon sent to China for reprocessing would be exempt from billions of dollars’ worth of retaliatory tariffs unleashed by China on US goods last week, a move that would inflict damage on China's seafood sector.
