The scandal of Russian-caught fish stocks being served to American school children is the latest in a long series of US media stories claiming that President Donald Trump has deliberately or unintentionally kowtowed to Russian interests.
The Trump administration may have “inadvertently” protected a Russian and Chinese price advantage on the market of pollock sold in the United States, CNN has reported.
CNN claim the error is the result of an arcane coding system which lists pollock as “Alaska Pollock” regardless of where it is actually caught. US fishing interests informed US trade representative Robert Lighthizer about the issue, sending several letters urging him to exclude tariffs only on seafood originating in Alaska and lobbying specifically to have the tariff exclusion on Russian pollock removed, but so far to no avail.