By The Numbers: Stacking Up US Farm Imports and Exports
Food. It has unfortunately been used as a pawn in past and present trade disputes given its essentiality to human life.
U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this month suggested that American farmers are hurt by agricultural imports and that tariffs could help them sell more product domestically.
It is true that the United States is increasingly importing farm goods. Those imports have been outpacing exports for the last decade, and by a widening degree.
Countries typically import products when domestic demand exceeds domestic production...
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