First eggs and now avocados – the rising prices in the US continue. After US President Donald Trump has increased the rates, his Mexican avocaders initially stopped delivering the United States. This has serious consequences for food prices.
Eggs have long been a symbol of price increases in the US. They became very expensive after the outbreak of bird flu – an egg crisis. But this can now be replaced by an avocadocrisie.
It all started that US President Donald Trump introduced new rates on Tuesday. For products that are imported from Mexico into the US, 25 percent of customs must now be paid.
No more Mexican avocados in the US
The Mexican avocaders immediately responded to the high customs pay and pauted their avocado deliveries to the United States. They first want to get an overview of the current situation before more avocados find their way to the United States. In the meantime, they sell the avocados in Mexico.
Avocados can be 50 cents more expensive
The problem with this: fewer avocados are on the shelves in the American supermarkets and that increases prices. In the coming weeks, Avocados could become about 20 percent more expensive, Viridiana Hernández Fernández, professor at the University of Iowa in Washington Post. “Depending on the avocado, people were able to pay 50 cents more each,” she says.
Also affected berries and co
This phenomenon does not only apply to avocados. A good half of the fruit and more than two -thirds of the vegetables in the US are imported from Mexico, as the US Department of Agriculture calculated.
For example, the rates also have an impact on berry producer Estefania Zavala. She says to the Associated Press news agency: “As a producer we can take measures to implement new strategies, find new commercial customers and not only concentrate on the US.” At the same time, however, one must remain realistic, “because 80 percent of our total production goes directly to the north.”
US needs import from Mexico
The supermarkets have also increased the alarm: for example the head of the big goal of the American individual dealer, Brian Cornell to the CNBC television station, said it was highly dependent on Mexican products in the winter months. The high rates could force the target to increase prices for fruit and vegetables this week, Cornell warned Tuesday.
Source: Krone
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