BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 18, 2022
Maine’s congressional delegation is urging the Biden administration to push China to meet a promise to buy more lobster as part of a 2020 deal easing a trade war that began under former President Donald Trump. It was part of a “phase one” trade deal in early 2020 between the U.S. and China. The U.S. dropped plans to put tariffs on $160 billion worth of imports and halved existing tariffs on a smaller group of goods in exchange for a Chinese promise to buy $200 billion more in U.S. goods. But it has purchased none of that total on net.