Mexican avocado town lives with twin threats: volcano and Trump 0 SHARES Share it! When we export to the United States, they pay us in dollars, and that is a big help to the Mexican economy,” he told AFP. The roughly $2 billion of avocados that Mexico now exports to the United States each year have become a catch-all symbol for US-Mexican trade. Media reports warned that the United States would run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump followed through, and US avocado prices leapt 34 percent last Tuesday. “If (Trump) doesn’t want (Mexican avocados) anymore, we’re going to lose a lot of money, a lot of jobs.

Source: Manila Bulletin April 10, 2019 01:18 UTC