Does this mean that Mexico is “r@ping and r0bbing” (Trumps words) us, for selling us tomatoes, or does it mean that the US wants $3B in tomatoes a year and Mexico has $3B in tomatoes to sell us. 🙃🔁 #tradedeficit #tomatoes #tariffs

We also, alternately but on the same line- purchase(d) ~92% of all tomatoes that Mexico exports.
( oec.world/en/profile/b... )

Mexico provides the US with ~91% of our “fresh tomatoes”. (2022 USDA)

(apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/a...)

Precisely, The U.S. imported $8.7 billion worth of meat in 2020. Canada was the largest source of imported beef, with the U.S. accounting for more than 70% of all Canadian beef exports.

The U.S. is the world’s largest overall consumer of beef (or bovine meat), and the third-largest per capita consumer at nearly 37.9 kg (84 lbs) per person per year.
Therefore, despite being one of the top producers of beef, the country still imports a lot of it.

Between 2011 and 2021, fruits and nuts imports made up 44% of domestic consumption, while 35% of vegetables consumed in the U.S. came from outside the country. The U.S. imports 70–85% of all its seafood and accounted for 15% of global seafood imports in 2020 at $21.8 billion.