Americans eating more foreign fresh fruit

The value of US imports of fresh and frozen fruit reached $8.73 billion for the first ten months of this year – up 12.33% on the same period last year, recently updated USDA figures reveals.
 

But the total for vegetables – just under $7 billion – is down 0.63%.
 

Mexico and Chile remain by far the main sources of fresh or frozen fruit imports for the United States, and when it comes to vegetables it’s Mexico and Canada, the data from the USDA’s Economic Research Service shows.

Map of top 10 sources of US fresh or frozen fruit imports Jan-Oct 2014