{"id":21781,"date":"2025-01-29T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=21781"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:46:26","slug":"how-colombia-u-s-tariff-shakedown-impacts-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/01\/29\/how-colombia-u-s-tariff-shakedown-impacts-food\/","title":{"rendered":"How Colombia-U.S. tariff shakedown impacts food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A luckily evaded Colombia-U.S. 25% tariff tiff highlights possible trade impact on food in colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 27, 2025, U.S.\u2019 President Donald Trump dangled 25% tariffs over Colombia after President Gustavo Petro refused entry to deportees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a few hours, Petro eventually backed down despite having also slapped 25% tariffs on U.S.\u2019 imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the tariffs had actualized, American products could have hurt local food trade because most of them are agricultural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed,  KGTV<\/u><\/a> channel shows how a restaurant that orders its Bandeja Paisa sausages directly from local sources fears tariff price effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andres Roher, the co-owner of the Antojitos Colombianos Restaurant notes how they order products locally to keep customer prices manageable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when tariff threats from foreign sources come up, this causes local meals to get expensive. This is because exports that attract a higher tax than usual force producers to pass the cost to domestic buyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The worst that could happen is a tariff on specific agricultural goods such as corn and soymeal from the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Colombia imports 47%<\/u><\/a> of its agri-food from the United States, mostly corn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes these imports align with changing price demographics<\/u><\/a> in the South American country. Notably, 2021\u2019s food imports from the U.S. worth US$3.4 billion preceded Colombia\u2019s food inflation, which hit 27% in November 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since consumers in Colombia are quite price-sensitive, it goes without elaboration that any tariff threat becomes quite serious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Ships from the U.S.?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

An important import from the United States that tariffs can hurt is corn, which amounted to $1.04 billion in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grain is Colombia\u2019s second biggest import from its bittersweet North American trade ally after refined petroleum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next in line is soybeans, whose imports totaled $766 million in 2022, the third highest commodity in import value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Ships<\/strong> from Colombia?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On the flip side, the United States would pay massive duty on coffee<\/u><\/a>, whose imports from Colombia reached $6.05 billion in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cut flowers, a very lucrative produce in its own right, follow at $1.64 billion, also in 2022, according to USA Today<\/u><\/a>\u2019s data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily for now, the Colombia-U.S. tariff war is at a halt while the two countries focus on illegal migration. But there is still the bigger picture on agricultural trade between the two countries to consider, per the statistics below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colombia-U.S. Agricultural Trade Statistics<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Colombia ranks the 53rd<\/sup> biggest exporter of goods in the world, at $60.3 billion, as of 2022, according to OEC<\/u><\/a>. While crude petroleum accounts for the lion\u2019s share at $16.1 billion, agricultural goods, especially coffee, rank high. In 2022, for instance, coffee raked in $4.15 billion <\/u><\/a>in exports, the third highest grossing export commodity for the country.  The United States is Colombia\u2019s biggest export market for all goods, at $15.6 billion in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States is also Colombia\u2019s biggest import source of agricultural goods, which totaled $2.7 billion in 2020<\/u><\/a>. This was equal to 48% of all agricultural imports by the Latin America country that year. Colombia also ranked in 2020 as the 11th<\/sup> biggest agricultural export destination for the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  Although the agricultural import margin by Colombia from the U.S. had shrunk to 47% in 2021, the value had increased to $3.4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the specialities of agricultural exports by Colombia<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speciality products are those with high value per piece even if their total export value is little. For instance, Colombia exports more citrus at\u00a00.15%\u00a0<\/u><\/a>of all exports than flours (0.078%), and yet flours rank as speciality products. Although some of the following specialities also reach other destinations, the U.S. is normally a major recipient. These include cut flowers representing 3.14% of exports, coffee at 6.89%, bananas at 1.92%, coffee extracts at\u00a00.72%<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and cereal flours at 0.078%. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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