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- description: U.S. consumers demand variety, quality, and convenience in the foods they consume. As Americans have become wealthier
and more ethnically diverse, the American food basket reflects a growing share of tropical products, spices, and imported
gourmet products. Seasonal and climatic factors drive U.S. imports of popular types of fruits and vegetables and tropical
products, such as cocoa and coffee. In addition, a growing share of U.S. imports can be attributed to intra-industry trade,
whereby agricultural-processing industries based in the United States carry out certain processing steps offshore and import
products at different levels of processing from their subsidiaries in foreign markets. This data set provides import values
of edible products (food and beverages) entering U.S. ports and their origin of shipment. Data are from the U.S. Department
of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau. Food and beverage import values are compiled by calendar year into food groups corresponding
to major commodities or level of processing. At least 10 years of annual data are included, enabling users to track long-term
growth patterns.; abstract: U.S. consumers demand variety, quality, and convenience in the foods they consume. As Americans
have become wealthier and more ethnically diverse, the American food basket reflects a growing share of tropical products,
spices, and imported gourmet products. Seasonal and climatic factors drive U.S. imports of popular types of fruits and vegetables
and tropical products, such as cocoa and coffee. In addition, a growing share of U.S. imports can be attributed to intra-industry
trade, whereby agricultural-processing industries based in the United States carry out certain processing steps offshore and
import products at different levels of processing from their subsidiaries in foreign markets. This data set provides import
values of edible products (food and beverages) entering U.S. ports and their origin of shipment. Data are from the U.S. Department
of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau. Food and beverage import values are compiled by calendar year into food groups corresponding
to major commodities or level of processing. At least 10 years of annual data are included, enabling users to track long-term
growth patterns.
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- Title U.S. Food Imports.
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- creation Date
2018-02-04T00:03:01.552168
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2018-08-06T19:36:30Z
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on a transform by Damian Ulbricht. Run on 2018-08-06T19:36:30Z
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CINERGI Metadata catalog
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eng
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2007
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urn:dciso:metadataabout:ac43cf3e-3f33-4063-8eb8-c9c05804594d
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