Overview
Increased trade in fresh fruits and vegetables provides U.S. consumers with a variety of benefits including the possibility of improved nutrition by making these products available year-round. Imports of these products are regulated by USDA's Animal and Plant Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) to reduce the risk of inadvertent entry of pests and diseases that could harm agriculture, public health, navigation, irrigation, natural resources, or the environment.
This data product identifies which countries, under APHIS phytosanitary rules, are eligible to export to the United States the fresh fruits and vegetables that are most important in the American diet. Current data represent country eligibility as of June 2011. Previous data represent eligibility as of June 2010, June 2009, June 2008, and February 2007. Data on the absolute and relative importance of these countries in international production and trade, individually and in aggregate, are also included. This data product supports the objectives of the Program for Research on the Economics of Invasive Species (PREISM) under which ERS funded research to improve the economic basis of decisionmaking concerning invasive species issues, policies, and programs betweem 2003 and 2008.
Data
 Summary Files
Summary information by fruit or vegetable on the number of countries eligible to export to the United States, number that are low- and middle-income, total eligible country production and exports as a percent of world total volume, and U.S. rank in terms of fresh production and per capita disappearance.
Individual Commodity Files
See Download Data for data on individual Fruits and Vegetables.
Related Briefing Rooms
Invasive Species
Management
Fruit and Tree
Nuts
Vegetables and Melons
Related Links
USDA's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has the
mission of protecting U.S. agriculture from
agricultural pests and diseases, regulating genetically
engineered organisms, and carrying out wildlife damage
management activities.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT is
an online database with international statistics covering
production, trade, food balance sheets, forest and fishery
products, population, and food aid shipments.
World Bank, Data and Statistics contains
country data derived, either directly or indirectly,
from official statistical systems of national governments.
Includes the World Development Indicators report
and database.
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Trade Internet System provides
U.S. trade statistics on agricultural, fish, forest,
and textile products.
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