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Article: Colombia still ranks as the largest U.S. market in central and South America.(agricultural trade)(Statistical Data Included)
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- AgExporter
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Colombia is holding onto its place as the second largest U.S. agricultural export market in Latin America, after Mexico. U.S. agricultural, fish and forest exports to Colombia totaled $424 million in 2000--virtually unchanged from the year before, despite continued repercussions from the severe recession of 1999. This article concentrates on Colombia's food processing industry as a market for U.S. agricultural products. Colombia's retail food sector was covered in the July 2001 issue of AgExporter.
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