Alaska's salmon industry felt relief to its stress after tariffs on the major import were removed from the official list of goods, which would have been taxed heavily upon import by China.

That stress came

when salmon fillets were added to a list of hundreds of goods which would be impacted by tariffs, threatening the Alaska salmon industry's profit margins.

As a result, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative proposed the removal of Alaska salmon from the lists, and it was removed from the approximate $200 billion in tariffs.

In a statement, junior Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, who worked with the USTR to lift the restrictions, celebrated the removal of salmon, while still saying he supports Pres. Donald Trump's trade war strategy of tariffs against China.

"While I am supportive of the administration’s broader efforts to address China’s unfair and non-reciprocal trading practices," Sullivan said in a statement Wednesday, "Targeting an American product, harvested by Alaskan fishermen on American flagged vessels runs completely counter to the administration’s strategy regarding China."

Sullivan said that Trump's tariff policy was "meant to counter China's unfair trading practices," but that it also "would have harmed Alaskan workers."