The threats of the American president Donald Trump to the border of his country with Mexico to conclude, the price of avocados in the U.S., a spectacular increase.
The price of the Hass-avocado, which grows in Michaocán in the southwest of Mexico increased this week with a third. That is the highest price increase in more than ten years. If Trump effective the action to the word, would add, would be the avocado-price, according to the experts, and may even be double.
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The increase in the price of Mexican avocados is a first sign of the impact that a closure of the border could have on U.s. food prices. According to Rabobank analyst David Magana try Mexican avocadoproducenten are already flocking to hedge against a possible closure of the border. “Companies are now trying all as many avocados as you can to the United States to get for it really as far as it would come”, sounds in the Financial Times .
Empty shelves
Mexico is responsible for about 80 percent of all avocados in the United States to be consumed. The state Michaocán is the largest producer of avocados in the world. A whopping 92 percent of all the avocados Mexico run, is a native of the region. the
“in the past We have already seen that the price of the fruit is doubled by weather conditions or strikes,” says Magana in the Financial Times , “but the current situation is unprecedented. An immediate closure of the U.s.-Mexican border by Trump would quickly empty avocadorekken may lead throughout the United States.”
And with us?
In Europe the prices are normally as good as no impact. Only 3 percent of the avocados here comes from Mexico, the rest comes mainly from Peru.
