{"id":414378,"date":"2026-01-18T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414378\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:06:09","slug":"questions-remain-as-china-eases-tariffs-on-crab-and-lobster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414378\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions Remain as China Eases Tariffs on Crab and Lobster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jamie-baker-secretary-treasurer-ffaw.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Questions Remain as China Eases Tariffs on Crab and Lobster\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary-Treasurer Jamie Baker (FFAW-Unifor)<\/p>\n<p>The FFAW welcomes news of tariff relief for Canadian crab and lobster bound for China, but says many questions remain.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Treasurer Jamie Baker told the Tim Powers Show\u00a0on\u00a0VOCM that\u00a0the NL seafood sector is worth well over $1 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>Baker says any reduction in tariffs is good news for harvesters and plant workers in this province, but with the current tariff deal coming to an end at the end of the year, they want to see what the plan is moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>He says the fishery needs stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd knowing year-to-year\u2026where your markets are going to be, and what the impacts are going to be would be certainly critical.\u201d He says crab and lobster are two of the most important and significant fisheries in the province, \u201cbut we don\u2019t have any clarity yet on some other really important species that are almost exclusively going to China.\u201d He says there was a \u201cvery big toss up last year over the sea cucumber\u2026that fishery didn\u2019t happen last year because of these tariffs in a lot of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Secretary-Treasurer Jamie Baker (FFAW-Unifor) The FFAW welcomes news of tariff relief for Canadian crab and lobster bound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-414378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}