WH Group looks for markets to import pork amid epidemic

Company posts decline in first-half profit amid swine flu and trade war

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China's WH Group imports pork from its American unit Smithfield Foods, but the trade war has made expanding of those imports difficult. © Reuters

HONG KONG (Nikkei Markets) -- With the Sino-American trade war in its way, WH Group, the world's largest pork company, is looking for newer markets to source pork even as its U.S. subsidiary is faced with a surplus of livestock and raw meat.

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