The Chinese are crazy! Here they charge their own people 62% tariffs on frozen pig carcasses. They tried not to import pigs, but then that little thing called swine flu got in the way. China is importing U.S. hog carcasses because it needs the entire animal, rather than specific parts, market analysts said. China has excess capacity in its processing industry due to the disease outbreak and can cut up U.S. carcasses to meet domestic tastes more cheaply than buying already-butchered pork, they said. China's tariffs on frozen carcasses are also 62%, compared with 72% for muscle cuts, said Erin Borror, economist for the U.S. Meat Export Federation, an industry group. "They need to be able to run their plants and keep workers employed to the extent possible," she said. Smithfield Foods said it is subject to the same Chinese trade tariffs as other U.S. pork producers, despite being owned by a China-based company. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/smithfield-foods-slaughterhouse-china-brings-081913092.html