AP PHOTOS: How a Chinese delicacy got caught in the crossfire of Trump's trade war

AP PHOTOS: How a Chinese delicacy got caught in the crossfire of Trump’s trade war

May 7, 2025, 9:11 PM

Suquamish Seafoods diver Joshua George returns to the F/V Carriere after a sample harvest of geoducks to send in for testing on the waters of Puget Sound near Suquamish, Wash., on Monday, April 21, 2025 (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
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(AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

An escalating trade war with the U.S. is now crippling an entire industry that hand-harvests geoducks, leaving Washington state divers without work, Seattle exporters without business and Chinese aficionados with fewer of these prized clams.

This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editor Patrick Sison in New York.

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