Auvil Fruit Company
Estimated Cost: $2 million in 2018
Auvil Fruit Co., a family-owned business based in Washington, has been impacted by China’s retaliatory 25% tax on American fruit and vegetable imports in a major way.
“It was a very big hit,” Ray Norwood, the company’s director of sales and marketing, told the Capital Press, adding that the hit amounted to a 20% decrease in price and volume.
Although Norwood didn’t specify a dollar figure, the Northwest Register Agent reported that Auvil lost more than $2 million in profits in 2018 alone.
