The Biden Administration is to extend its ban on US imports of Russian seafood to include items processed or “transformed” in other countries.
President Joe Biden signed a new executive order to extend the ban on December 22. Announcing the clampdown, Biden said that among other measures, the US Government intends to prohibit the importation of “products harvested in Russian waters or by Russia-flagged vessels, even if these products are then transformed in a third country”.
The Department of the Treasury has since confirmed this means a complete ban on imports of salmon, cod, pollock, and crab of Russian origin, no matter where these have been processed…