South Carolina shrimper Craig Reaves on Friday praised President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports to rectify what the president views as a decades-long trade imbalance between the United States and other countries.
Reaves said the seafood industry has been getting crushed for decades by increased imports, and highlighted that these other nations are hurting ecosystems, giving Americans a bad product, and using other unsavory practices. Trump’s tariffs will give fishermen “immediate relief” and the space to rebuild and save the industry, he argued.
“I am a lifelong shrimper, my dad was a shrimper, so we are generational fishermen, and we have been getting killed by imports, for not just years, but literally decades,” he said on Fox News. “We’ve been suffering for a long, long time, and these tariffs, we believe, are going to give us some immediate relief.”
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