Trump’s tariffs welcomed by Gulf Coast shrimpers: ‘This industry is dying’

Amid a flood of cheap imports, shrimpers in Alabama's Bayou La Batre are pleading with the Trump administration for steep tariffs.

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — It’s been four months since Henry Barnes, the mayor of this struggling fishing village in southern Alabama, wrote to Donald Trump for help.  

A flood of cheap imported shrimp is killing the local seafood market, he wrote, thanks to “low and non-existent tariffs.” He invited Trump, for whom he voted, to come visit Bayou La Batre, known as Alabama’s Seafood Capital. 

But thus far he hasn’t heard back. “He’ll eventually get around to us,” said Barnes, a third-generation net-maker. “I mean, we’re just a small town.” 

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-tariffs-gulf-coast-shrimp-cost-increase-seafood-inflation-rcna197845

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