Avocado prices are surging and they could go significantly higher if President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to shut the U.S.-Mexico border over the issue of immigration.
Steve Barnard, president and chief executive of Mission Produce, the world’s largest distributor and grower of avocados, told Reuters that Trump could not have picked a worse time of year because Mexico currently supplies almost 100 percent of America’s avocados. For example, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, most of the illegal drugs entering the U.S. via Mexico are smuggled through ports of entry, not across unwalled border.
America has a trade deficit with Mexico—meaning it imports more than it exports—because its economy is larger and stronger. U.S. businesses can reduce their costs by importing cheaper goods from Mexico and using labor there, increasing their profitability and allowing them to invest in expansion.
Great. I hate guacamole
BuildTheWall CloseItDown BoycottMexico
Shut down the border!
Yes! The most necessary meals of the day!
You have limited time and space yet that is what you choose to focus on? Not the local economy, the people impacted, heck even the tequila. Your news item is so stupid you deserve to go without avocados.
NBC, you are so incredibly tone deaf on this one. Get out of your own echo chamber and talk to people. We grow avocados in the US...even organic avocados. Oh...you want cheap? Too bad, those grown in the US are better.
Good,I don't like them anyway
If this isn’t a right-wing attack on liberals, I don’t know what is.
So damn what. America's sovereignty is more important than a damn avocado.
So? Maybe it will encourage farmers in the states to produce them again.
Who cares?
Eat hamburdders instead
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