Foreign fruit imports meet year round demand from abroad
US shoppers find winter shelves stocked with berries citrus and grapes as Latin American and Chilean growers supply the seasonally unavailable fruit year round. Imports rose 125 percent 1992 to 2002 53 percent since 1997 to 2.3 million tons and now represent one fifth of American fruit consumption.
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