Flower Imports from ATPDEA Countries
Cut flower import values to the U.S. from the four South American countries that make up the ATPDEA -- Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia -- ranged in 2006 from almost $450 million in cut flowers from Colombia to around $3,000 from Bolivia. Ecuador and Peru were in between at more than $141 million and almost $4 million in value, respectively. Colombian import values rose 7 percent in 2006 over the previous year; from Ecuador the value increased more than 9 percent. Peru, starting from a much lower base, experienced a two-thirds increase in import value (67 percent); while Bolivia, the country with the lowest values saw imports fall in dollars more than 90 percent in 2006.
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Cut Flower Import Values from ATPDEA Countries |
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Source: Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Statistics |
--Ira Silvergleit
isilvergleit@safnow.org
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