Trump hits Thai seafood industry over worker rights | Malay Mail

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WASHINGTON, Oct 26 — Donald Trump will suspend trade preferences for Thailand’s seafood industry after it failed to take steps to improve worker rights, dealing a blow to the multi-billion dollar sector. Thailand is the world’s third largest seafood exporter but its supplier status has been...

US President Donald Trump delivers keynote remarks at the Shale Insight 2019 Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, October 23, 2019. — Reuters pic

All Thai seafood products will lose their eligibility for the trade preferences due to “longstanding worker rights issues in the seafood and shipping industries,” Bloomberg News reported today, quoting the Office of the US Trade Representative. Under the US Generalised System of Preferences programme, eligible countries are able to import certain goods into the US duty-free.

The US suspension comes despite the European Union recently striking Thailand from its warning list in January, seeing efforts made by the government to tackle illegal fishing.

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