2) Trade war deal: a potential win for U.S. seafood exporters?
Any solution to the ongoing big-power trade war could mean more U.S. imports into China, at the expense of other trading partners like Europe. China appears to be betting it can quieten America’s immediate grievances (for now) with a ramp-up in imports of the goods it needs – agricultural and food-related – as well as big ticket items like jets. That could mean by default that American vendors get favored access by dint of Chinese government diktat. Faced with its dispute with the U.S., China has expended much effort on free trade deals to open up new supply partnerships and thus reduce its dependence on any one partner. It will be worth seeing how it balances that with a need to placate Washington and get a trade deal.
