America leads the world In the production of civilian parts of aircraft, oil and gas.
Bananas, not so much.
However, the beloved staple from the breakfast table was front and in the middle in the tested stock market Thursday between the American representative of Madeleine Dean, Democratics of Montgomery and the Secretary of Trade Howard Lutnick during the dissertation of the house for home.
By managing banana and reliable air, Dean pressed Lutnicka on the handing over of Trump’s administration on the tariff, one of the main ones Talking topics Currently in Washington and other capitals of the world.
She asked: “What is the banana tariff? By the way, we love bananas. We buy billions of them. I love bananas. What is the banana tariff?”
“Overall 10%,” said Lutnick.
Then Dean told Lutnick that as a result of the Walmart tariff, he has already raised the price of bananas by 8% in his stores.
“If you build in America, there is no tariff,” Lutnick replied.
Dean shot: “We can’t build bananas in America.”
Later Dean wrote on x: “America is leading in many things, but growing bananas is not one of them. In fact, not everything can be produced in the USA
“Trump’s tariffs punish Americans simply for buying desired high -quality goods.”
Some bananas are actually grown in Hawaii and Florida.
But production in the USA is about 3500 tons a year, while Guatemala – which provides the lion’s share of bananas in the United States – produces 4.8 million tons per year, as World Population Review.
As for Grillings Dean, Lutnick could have it easy.
Last month, Dean questioned the director of the FBI Kasha Patel, calling him “unable” to the office, and then suggested that he would revenge for her perception, asking when she should expect a FBI at her door.
In 2021, Dean served as one of the nine managers of the impeachment depicting the chamber’s argument about why President Donald Trump should be convicted in his second process of the Senate impeachment.
