Southern Cross Seafood sues over US rejection of UK Chilean sea bass imports

A Chilean sea bass fillet.

A seafood importer has sued the U.S. government for blocking a shipment of fish caught in protected waters near Antarctica – an ocean at the center of a diplomatic feud dividing the normally allied U.S. and U.K. governments.

Houston, Texas, U.S.A.-based Southern Cross Seafoods said in a complaint filed in mid-October 2022 in the U.S. International Trade Court the decision to bar importation of Chilean sea bass was arbitrary, illegal, and would cause significant economic harm to its business ... 

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