Donald Trump May Have Just Made Your Super Bowl Party Spread More Expensive
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Days ahead of the big game, tariffs are set to rise on avocados, which overwhelmingly come from Mexico.
If you were planning on having fresh guacamole as part of the spread for your Super Bowl party, you might want to head to the grocery store before Tuesday. The reason? The looming tit-for-tat trade war between the U.S. and Mexico, Canada and China.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced he was imposing 25% tariffs on most goods from Mexico and Canada, prompting the leaders of both countries to say they would impose their own surtaxes on U.S.-made goods sold in their countries.
The timing could not have been worse for one needed ingredient on the shopping list of fresh-from-scratch snack fans: avocados. The innards of the dark green fruits are used to make guacamole, which, along with salsa, is a Super Bowl spread staple.
The United States is heavily dependent on Mexico for avocados, and the Super Bowl football game is the metaphorical Super Bowl for the avocado importing industry.
According to Avocados From Mexico, an industry marketing group, 95% of avocados sold leading up to the Super Bowl are from Mexico, requiring about 250 million pounds of avocados to be brought across the border in the weeks before the game. (Or, as a recent Avocados From Mexico press release cheerily said, “Enough to fill 30 million football helmets with guacamole.”)
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