Leon Stapleton is seen in his grocery store, Leon's Thriftway, which sells pigs' feet, snouts and ears in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., July 15, 2018. REUTERS/Theo Waters
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Before the U.S.-China trade war, American pig processors exported nine out of every 10 pigs' feet and heads they shipped overseas to China and Hong Kong - for prices higher than they would fetch anywhere else.
Those parts and others that most Americans won't eat - hearts, tongues, stomachs, entrails - have a special place in Chinese culinary culture and, consequently, in the profit margins of U.S. pork exporters.
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