This is Marathon County in central Wisconsin, home to approximately 90 percent of the United States's
ginseng crop. So the nearly 200 growers here could be heat hit particulary hard by a 15percent tariff China
has imposed on ginseng, part of China's response to still steel tariffs leved levied by President Trump.
According to estimates from the the Wisconsin Ginseng Board, Wisconsin prdcuces one million pounds of
ginseng a year, and most of it goes to China. But this retiree in China says he buys Wisconsin ginseng but
doesn't know how he will be available able to afford it, if the extra cost is passed on the onto consumers.
They will find out this fall whether the extra cost will be passed onto farmers, distributors and consmers.
Carrie Antlfinger, Associated Press.
* be hit hard : 심한 타격을 입다.
* tariff : 관세
* levy : 세금을 부과하다. 징수하다.
* estimate: 추신, 견적
* pass on : 전하다. 떠넘기다.