Trump Trade Winds Blow Egypt Oranges to Shanghai Fruit Shops
- Sunmoon re-routing global fruit flows to dodge import duties
- China has slapped U.S. fruit and nuts with 2 tariffs this year
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Escalating global trade tensions are giving Chinese fruit stalls a little more of an international flavor.
Fruit distributor Sunmoon Food Co. is shipping navel oranges from Egypt, kiwis from Italy and apples from Poland into China for the first time ever. The produce will fill the gap created when the Asian nation slapped tariffs on U.S. fruit as part of the escalating trade war between the Xi Jinping and Donald Trump administrations.