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U.S. tropical product exports--essential oils, cocoa and cocoa products, coffee and coffee products, spices, tea (including herbal) and products, and ginseng--totaled $1.43 billion in calendar year (CY) 1999, an increase of 6 percent over CY 1998. All of these groups increased in value from last year. U.S. exports of cocoa and cocoa products reached a record $436.4 million, an increase of nearly 12 percent from 1998. U.S. exports of coffee and coffee products continue to climb and reached a record $241.6 million in CY 1999, up 4 percent. U.S. exports of spices were up again in 1999 and totaled $110.4 million in CY 1999, up over 2 percent from the 1998 level which was up a whopping 25 percent from CY 1997. U.S. exports of essential oils increased slightly to $531.2 million in CY 1999, but still are not recovered to the record level of 1996.
U.S. exports of tropical and related products, plus sugar and related products, totaled $2.65 billion in CY 1999, an increase of 2.3 percent from the previous year's level and down less than 1 percent from the record in 1997. Note: Essential oils and ginseng export statistics are also included in the export value total for horticultural products in the "World Horticultural Trade and U.S. Export Opportunities" circular.
The Horticultural and Tropical
Products Division's Home Page may be found at the following
internet address: http://www.fas.usda.gov/htp/
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