16 Mar 2025 12:25 pm
Zeets2 » 35 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ So you're saying that if an American buyer has a choice between a Mexican avocado at $1.50 and a California avocado at .99 cents, he'd prefer to pay the higher price for an import than for an American product? So when they choose to buy the American-grown avocado, has the price gone up for them when that's the price that BOTH avocados were at before the Trump tariff?
Are these just liberal American imbecilic buyers you're talking about?
If so, then they (and obviously YOU) DESERVE to pay higher prices, DUH!
it is not a matter of choice, california cannot produce enough avacodos.
-------------------------California grows commercial quantities of avocados, but it can’t come close to producing enough to fill American consumer demand. Thus, Mexico supplies about 80 percent of the Hass market in the United States, followed by California at about 12 percent, Peru at 5 percent, Colombia at 2.6 percent, and “others” at less than 1 percent. When Mexican avocados were allowed into all U.S. states in 2007, per capita consumption was about 3.5 pounds. Less than 20 years later, it’s nearly triple that. The WSJ does not try to predict what will happen with tariffs, and if imposed, what they could do the price of avocados in the United States. But it does say there are probably two things that won’t change with the avocado economy: “The first is that U.S. companies will keep importing from Mexico because that’s the only way they can meet the year-round demand. “The chances of American farmers [growing] enough avocados on their own are roughly the same as their chances of making avocados neon pink.