By Walt Hickey Goldfish In 2018, the United States imported $1.2 million worth of live ornamental freshwater fish from China, predominantly goldfish and other Crucian carp. It’s a niche business, with goldfish breeders and fans of very fancy fishies paying top dollar for high quality artisinal pet fish. A larger economic fight — a trade war between the U.S. and China — has put the hobbyists between a rock and a hard place, a hard place that is presumably a small ceramic castle where their fish can hide. Goldfish face a 25 percent tariff, which is really putting importers in a tough spot, as a high quality fish can go for $125 to $300, and the margins aren’t exactly flush.
Thanks for the Baby Shark reference, which is now running on a nonstop loop through my mind (damn you).