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Trade showdown

Retaliatory Mexico tariff could leave apples rotting on trees

by Kai Ryssdal and Phoebe Unterman

Jun 6, 2018

The 20 percent tariff on U.S. apple exports will have huge effects on Washington's apple industry.

Red Delicious apples hang from the branches at Walters' Fruit Ranch on September 18, 2006 in Green Bluff, Washington. Mexico is the top export market for Washington apples, which make up 90 percent of nation's apple exports.

Jeff T. Green/Getty Images

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