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03/27/2025

✈️ JFK is the No. 1 ranked U.S. port for 2025. According to the latest U.S. trade data available through January 2024.

This ascension is due to imports from Switzerland (No. 4 U.S. trade partner YTD) of articles with precious metals.

More: https://ustradenumbers.com/ports/



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03/05/2025

📰 "With Trump Tariffs, Expect Food Inflation For These Fruits, Vegetables" writes Ken Roberts for Forbes this morning.

What is on the cutting board:
🍅 tomatoes
🥬 lettuce
🐇 carrots
🥑 avocados
🍓 berries

Read the full article https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2025/03/04/with-trump-tariffs-expect-food-inflation-for-these-fruits-vegetables/

02/10/2025

"The 2024 deficit was a record $1.2 trillion, marking the fourth consecutive trade deficit above $1 trillion and the sixth increase in the last eight years, according to my analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data released Wednesday." writes Ken Roberts on Forbes.

Story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2025/02/07/us-had-biggest-trade-deficits-with-these-10-nations-in-2024/



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02/03/2025

"Canada and Mexico are the top buyers of U.S. exports in more than 72% of all export categories, according to my analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data." writes WorldCity president, Ken Roberts for Forbes.

Story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2025/02/01/new-tariff-war-canada-mexico-top-market-for-72-of-export-categories/



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Canada and Mexico are the top buyers of U.S. exports in more than 72% of all export categories, according to my analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.

01/23/2025

"So, again, the U.S. trade deficit with China has fallen since 2016, the last full year of data before Trump entered the White House, from $346.83 billion to what I expect to be slightly less than $300 billion when annual statistics are released in early February." writes Ken Roberts for Forbes this week as President Trump took office.

Full story: https://bit.ly/ForbesKenChina10Imports


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01/16/2025

"U.S. trade with the world today is vastly different in many respects from the world Donald Trump encountered when he entered the White House as president for the first time, in 2017." writes Ken Roberts for Forbes today.

A look at labor, data, deficits, more.

Full story: https://bit.ly/ForbesKenTrumpnTrade



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12/20/2024

💊 U.S. imports of Medicines in individual dosages increased 5.85% through October to $77.77 billion.

Vaccines are up, medicines in individual doses are also up this year.

One of the top ports for these imports in the U.S.: Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

These imports are coming in from Europe including Switzerland and Ireland.



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12/18/2024

💉The imports of the category that include vaccines is up over 100% in the last five years. It is the #4 import in the U.S., jumping five other categories in just two years.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau description plasma, vaccines, blood imports are mostly, "immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale".

This type of product tends to need temperature controlled and tends to fly, entering the U.S. at airports like Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) - O'Hare & Midway International Airports, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, JFK Airport, and CVG Airport - Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.

12/16/2024

"But among the 1,232 other import categories are some laggards. Just six of them, our focus here, are down $20.91 billion, when compared to the same 10 months of last year." writes our own president Ken Roberts for Forbes.

Story: https://bit.ly/ImportsTariffsTradeDataGuy

12/12/2024

🌐 BRICS and U.S. trade - next up a look at what we source from South Africa.

SOUTH AFRICA is the No. 1 source for unwrought platinum used in the catalytic converters, silicone production, medical and biomedical, petroleum refining, jewelry. This category also includes palladium and rhodium.

Over half of all unwrought platinum imports entering the U.S. are sourced from South Africa.

Data: https://ustradenumbers.com/country/south-africa/

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12/11/2024

🌐 BRICS and U.S. trade - next up a look at what we source from China.

CHINA is the No. 1 source for 290 different products coming into the U.S. so far this year. Two of those have over $10 billion in imports this year from China:

™️Made in China
Cell phones, $33.76 billion to U.S.
Electric storage batteries, $12.52 billion to U.S.

Data: https://ustradenumbers.com/country/CHINA/

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12/10/2024

🌐 BRICS and U.S. trade - next up a look at what we source from India.

INDIA is the No. 1 source for medicines in individual dosages into the U.S. year-to-date. The U.S. also sources diamonds primarily from India.

Data: https://ustradenumbers.com/country/india/

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