Miami (APP) – If a husband or boyfriend mess with Valentine’s Day this week, this is not due to a lack of flowers.
According to the US Customs and Border Protection, as of February 14, agricultural experts at the Miami International Airport have operated nearly 940 million trunks of cutting around 940 million trunks. About 90 % of freshly cut flowers being sold for Valentine’s Day The United States comes to Miami, while the other 10 % pass through Los Angeles.
Roses, carnings, Pompens, Hydranges, Chrisantomes and Japusofla arrive on hundreds of flights, mostly from Colombia and Ecuador, traveling throughout the United States and Canada to florists and supermarkets.
Miami’s largest flower importer is Ivanka Cargo, based in Colombia’s Medelin. Senior Vice President Dugo Elias said during a news conference in Miami last week that in the last three weeks, the company has moved about 18,000 tonnes of flowers on 300 full cargo flights.
“We transport flowers all year long, but especially during Valentine’s season, we are more than twice as demand,” said Elias.
Flower is one of the largest imports of the airport, said Jimmy Morales, the chief Operations Officer of Miami Dead. The airport received more than 3 million tonnes of cargo last year, with flowers worth about 400,000 tonnes, worth more than $ 1.6 billion.
“With 1,500 tonnes of flowers daily, which is equivalent to imports of 90,000 tonnes of flowers worth $ 450 million in January and February,” Morals said.
MIA Port Director Daniel Elono said it is a huge task for CBP agriculture experts, which flowers from entering the country for potentially harmful plants, pests and foreign animal diseases. Check the bundle.
“The invasive species has caused the United States to bullion 120 billion in annual economic and environmental losses, including production and quality losses for the US agriculture industry,” Alono said.
Columbia’s flower industry was recently looking at one May 25 % tariffWhen President Donald Trump quarreled with the leadership of the South American country over accepting flights carrying deported immigrants. But the trade dispute stopped at the end of January after Colombia agreed to the flights.
Colombian President Gostao Petro had previously rejected two US military planes belonging to Colombia carrying migrants. Petro blames Trump Do not behave with dignity with migrants During exile and threatened that a 25 % increase in Colombia’s revenue on US goods would take retaliation against the United States.
Friday’s news conference officials refused to answer any questions about politics or taxes.
