Buy American Act
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — StarKist Co. has told the federal government that its American Samoa operations “are consistently under threat from the highly-subsidized Chinese tuna industry operating in the Western Pacific” due to state subsidies and few regulation restraints.
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![“Loopholes in the Buy American provision allow for the purchase with U.S. tax dollars of foreign-sourced tuna, including [the] subsidized Chinese product,” Michelle Faist, Head of Corporate Affairs & Government Relations at StarKist Co.said and noted that the proposed revisions offered by USDA do not adequately close these loopholes. STARKIST SAMOA PLANT](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/starkist_air_view_21.jpeg?itok=S-U1Fd3_)