I took a ten-day vacation and filled the blog with retreads while I was gone. When I came home, I started my vacation from the blog. It was relaxing. Mostly, I layed in bed and when I got up I layed on the couch. Except for frequent visits to the refrigerator, I layed on the couch until it was time to lay on the bed. Nothing much caught my interest except food, of course. So here is some information I picked up about our food supply. Just which foods do we import, how much and from where. The answer is that we import a lot of food from a lot of places. I made this list and limited it to foods we imported that added up to more than a half billion dollars worth. Yes, billion with a 'b'.
Tomatoes $2.5 billion from Mexico
Avocados $2.1 billion from Mexico
Bananas $1.0 billion for Guatemala
Strawberries $.9 billion from Mexico
Peppers $1.4 billion from Mexico
Rasberries, Blackberries etc. $.7 billion from Mexico
Grapes $.6 billion from Chile
Cranberries, Blueberries $.5 billion from Peru
Cucumbers $.5 billion from Mexico
Pineapples $.5 billion from Costa Rica
Bovine cuts of meat fresh $1.4 billion from Canada
Bovine cuts of meat boneless, frozen $.8 billion from New Zealand
Swine hams, shoulders fresh $.6 billion from Canada
Shrimp $1.9 billion from India
Fish parts, fresh $1.4 billion from Chile
Fish, frozen $.9 billion from China
Lobster $.8 billion from Canada
Crab $.7 billion from Canada
Fish whole, fresh $.6 billion from Canada
Canola oil $1.4 billion from Canada
Palm oil $.6 billion from Indonesia
Wheat $.6 billion from Canada
Rice $.7 billion from Thailand
Oats $.6 billion from Canada
Cashews $.9 billion from Vietnam
Coffee $1.0 billion from Columbia
Cocoa beans $.8 billion from Cote Divoire
Sugar $.7 billion from Mexico
That all adds up to a lot of billions. Some of the items really surprised me. I thought we grrew or raised some of these things ourselves. When you hear about tariffs being imposed on imported foods, these are the items that will be most effected.
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