Our agricultural trade deficit is on track to be US$14.4B with a population of 330M. China's agricultural trade deficit last year was US$135B with a population of 1.4B. China's fertility rate is 1.28 compared to ethnic Asians in the US of 1.35. The aggregate US fertility rate would look downright European is we didn't have ethnic Hispani…
Our agricultural trade deficit is on track to be US$14.4B with a population of 330M. China's agricultural trade deficit last year was US$135B with a population of 1.4B. China's fertility rate is 1.28 compared to ethnic Asians in the US of 1.35. The aggregate US fertility rate would look downright European is we didn't have ethnic Hispanics with a fertility rate of 1.89 averaging in - combined with the free flow of the group across the southern "border". Our refinery capacity is largely reliant on crude oil imports. We could build/modify them to use domestic oil, but that would require a lot of steel piping and pressure vessels. At least the pipelines feeding us from Canada are safe.
The US ag deficit is from higher-valued products. Winter vegetables and fruits we can't grow here. Although tbf to China, they are self-sufficient in rice.
Our agricultural trade deficit is on track to be US$14.4B with a population of 330M. China's agricultural trade deficit last year was US$135B with a population of 1.4B. China's fertility rate is 1.28 compared to ethnic Asians in the US of 1.35. The aggregate US fertility rate would look downright European is we didn't have ethnic Hispanics with a fertility rate of 1.89 averaging in - combined with the free flow of the group across the southern "border". Our refinery capacity is largely reliant on crude oil imports. We could build/modify them to use domestic oil, but that would require a lot of steel piping and pressure vessels. At least the pipelines feeding us from Canada are safe.
The US ag deficit is from higher-valued products. Winter vegetables and fruits we can't grow here. Although tbf to China, they are self-sufficient in rice.