It’s a stark turnaround for a nation that once used its abundant food supplies as a tool of statecraft

I did not expect to see an acknowledgement of food-imperialism from this article, but you know what? Hats off to the ML-MZT third worldist comrades at the Bloomberg HQ.

Before then, the only other annual deficits were in 2019 and 2020, during President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, and several years prior to 1960.

Long Live the Butcher comedian Trump, who despite himself, hastens the world proletarian revolution.

“What we’re seeing is not reassuring when it comes to increasing our reliance on a small number of markets,”

If anyone wants to know the exact breakdown, here is a source. A slight majority of the imports come from just 5 countries, Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Germany. I was wondering what the fuck kind of food Germany exports to America, and this source (for Germany’s food exports to all countries) show it is almost entirely just processed food and animal products that could be made anywhere. At least when it comes to value terms, I am guessing a huge portion of America’s food imports could be substituted by domestic food processing.

Farmers are also focusing more on value-added products like ethanol, as it gets “tougher and tougher to compete in a commodity world,” Ryan LeGrand, CEO of the US Grains Council, said at the forum.

This will be great for food prices and the environment /s