U.S. Food Imports

U.S. consumers demand variety, quality, and convenience in the foods they consume. As Americans have become wealthier and more ethnically diverse, the American food basket reflects a growing share of tropical products, spices, and imported gourmet products. Seasonal and climatic factors drive U.S. imports of popular types of fruits and vegetables and tropical products, such as cocoa and coffee. In addition, a growing share of U.S. imports can be attributed to intra-industry trade, whereby agricultural-processing industries based in the United States carry out certain processing steps offshore and import products at different levels of processing from their subsidiaries in foreign markets.

This data set provides import values of edible products (food and beverages) entering U.S. ports and their origin of shipment. Data are from the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau. Food and beverage import values are compiled by calendar year into food groups corresponding to major commodities or level of processing. At least 10 years of annual data are included, enabling users to track long-term growth patterns.This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: Web page with links to Excel files For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.

美国消费者对所消费的食品需求多样、品质卓越且便捷。随着美国人民财富的增长以及种族构成的日益多元化，美国食品篮子中热带产品、香料及进口高级美食的比重亦呈上升趋势。季节性及气候因素驱使美国进口流行水果、蔬菜及热带产品，例如可可和咖啡。此外，美国进口量的增长部分可归因于行业内贸易，即美国农业加工产业在海外进行部分加工步骤，并从海外市场的子公司进口不同加工阶段的产物。本数据集提供了进入美国港口的可食用产品（食品和饮料）的进口价值及其装运地信息。数据来源于美国商务部、美国人口普查局。食品和饮料的进口价值按日历年汇编，分为与主要商品或加工阶段相对应的食品类别。至少包含10年的年度数据，使用户能够追踪长期增长趋势。本记录摘自向https://data.gov目录提供数据的美国农业部企业数据清单。本记录的数据包括以下资源：包含链接至Excel文件的网页。欲获取完整信息，请访问https://data.gov。