According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. importation of goods exceeded it's exportation of agricultural goods than it exported in June and August.
One of the fastest growing categories is imported food, and many Americans shoppers want the types of food they can't get in America. Some benefits from having more imported goods is that we have more variety of foods and many Supermarket executives in the 1990's learned about importing and turned to Chile, Argentina, and Mexico for their goods, especially during the winter season.
Sunkist Growers Inc. which is a citrus cooperative owned by growers in Caifornia and Arizona are making plans to import navel oranges from South Africa for sale under their brand name while oranges are out of season.
"We either provide consumers with what they want or we are out of the market," said Jeffrey Gargiulo, Sunkist chief executive.
The growing immigrant population has created a demand for imported foods also. General Mills Inc. is beginning to import frozen flatbreads, roti and naan from India.
Most of Pepsi-Cola sold in theU.S. is made with concentrate imported from places such as Ireland, because manufacturing costs are cheaper than in the U.S
There is a load of information on this site but these topics were quite interesting to me and I learned something today, yay!
Here is the site
http://organicconsumers.org/corp/exports111204.cfm
THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINERNovember 10, 2004, Issue #379Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness>From a Public Interest Perspective
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