Your Mapo Tofu Habit Is About to Get More Expensive

A 25 percent Trump tariff dubbed the ‘quarter pinch’ jacks up price of foods from China

John W. Miller
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5 min readJan 21, 2020

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The trade war has come for Chinese restaurants.

There are more than 40,000 Chinese eateries in the U.S., compared with not quite 14,000 McDonald’s. That makes Chinese restaurants a colossal economic force…

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John W. Miller
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John W. Miller is an award-winning writer, journalist and filmmaker. Check out his recent film “Moundsville” at www.moundsville.org