US Slaps Duties on Fresh Canadian Mushrooms Over Subsidy Claims

US Slaps Duties on Fresh Canadian Mushrooms Over Subsidy Claims
FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2011, file photo, a mushroom grows at Winslow Park in Freeport, Maine. Maine. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File
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The United States has put countervailing duties on fresh mushrooms grown in Canada following a U.S. Department of Commerce investigation which the Canadian industry has called “deeply flawed.”

The change, posted in the federal register on Monday, will slap most fresh mushrooms with tariffs of 2.84 percent.