The last New York Food Exhibition, which attracted large numbers of exhibitors and buyers – said that the Food Regulatory Specializations Association (SFA) said that the offer attracted about 2,500 exhibitors from 59 countries, a 14 % joke at 2024, with great gatherings, etc. – gave the purchases that you buy for the purchases you buy. American definitions.
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The United States is the largest import market in the world by value. In fact, specialized foods alone – this does not include all food sectors – is expected to reach $ 231 billion this year, according to SFA. The exhibition works as an entry point for the profitable US market for many food exporters.
Definitions worry about Canadian suppliers
The Canadian exhibitors at NYFS were unable to hide the uncertainty about the impact of definitions on their business.
Ajay Diwan, chief sales manager at Ontario Emix of Canada, Mesisja, Ontario, whose Indian food products are sold in many grocery stores in the United States, said Canada is an American ally, as well as being a member of the USMCA Trade Agreement, which was concerned with President Trump drops. This also affected the buyer’s confidence. However, the “silver lining”, as Diwan indicated, was that his products were subject to a parallel from USMCA, although dairy products are not exempt from the definitions. “Our best -selling product in the United States Panoir (Indian white cheese), although we cannot charge it free from customs tariffs because it comes under the dairy category. ”
Ontario can increase the weakening of Canada, whose food products are under the brand “Brars”, from its exports to 2024 to the United States during the previous year. One of the “positive trend” that was observed since early 2025 is that buyers rushed to buy products from foreign suppliers before the customs tariff entered into.
Patates 2000, which is a company based in Quebec that provides Patates 2000 Poutine Gravy – Malik, George Polichronis, who has a restaurant background in the field of cooking, created the sauce that is now the company’s main selling product – at the exhibition to provide the sauce to American buyers and others.
He asked to comment on President Donald Trump’s tariff, Polichronis said that “beside a noble man, I saw love and respect between Americans and Canadians.” He said that the sauce he sold was vegetarian, although “flavor is like beef and chicken.” He said, “It is a vegetarian product with herbs and spices,” adding that the broth is “very common”, according to the comments of the people who took their samples.
Patates 2000 exports to Mexico and was negotiating with the Vermont (Wissonsin). “We will put our products next to their homes in their stores so that the consumer can look at our products in both stores,” said Polichronis, adding that his products are not subject to definitions. “But I believe a firm belief that any additional tariff will only increase consumer prices.”
Do more Americans drink tea?
The intermediate American fascination with coffee is still undisputedly due to other drinks, but black and green tea varieties are increasingly common. Indian tea, which makes a mark slowly on the prevailing American market, is no longer consumed by only the booming southern Asian diaspora with a tea tea that only works as a drink but also helps in social bonding.
Ravi Kouta, Secretary of the Eastern Aam State in India, highlighted the fact that tea had a 200 -year -old heritage. Asam provides with her mountainous region and abundant rains a natural environment that leads to tea cultivation. “About 20 % of the population of Asam depends on tea for his livelihood,” Kouta said, adding that 50 % of the tea implanted in India originated from the state of Asam. She said that India produced a distance of 1.38 billion kilograms in the fiscal year 2024. “Tea exports in India to the United States amounted to about 123 million last year.”
Areejeth Raha, Secretary -General of the Tea Association in India, said that Indian tea exporters were also trying to promote “flavor tea varieties”, including spice -filled tea such as cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, etc.
Bipul Upreti, Tata Consumer Products (Export), said Tata 2024 tea exports amounted to about $ 5 million. He said: “The United States is the largest market for the largest tea Titi Titley brand, followed by Tata Tea Gold.”
On the American definitions, Upreti admitted that “the customs tariff may have an impact, but we hope that the Indian government will highlight an agreement on a reasonable basis” so that India is not “not pricing outside the market.” India is still not over, starting in late July, an agreement with the United States, although the Indian interlocutors have visited the United States for negotiations with their American counterparts.
The United States is an attractive market for olive oil
The rows and rows of exhibitors of olive oil, especially from the Mediterranean and North Africa countries, have been a testimony of the importance of this cooking component in the American cuisine.
In an interview, Mohamed Emery Ouigon, head of the olive and olive oil exporters Association, which also has his olive oil company called Montida in Istanbul, recalled that Spain and other countries faced bad weather conditions in 2023, a position that benefited from Turkish suppliers due to the resulting production.
“Turkish olive oil exports to the United States rose to $ 200 million in 2023. In 2024, the situation stabilized … Also because the Turkish government may restrict bulk shipments due to the shortage of at home. The import prices of olive oil will stabilize because production costs have decreased relatively.” The United States has emerged as the largest purchase of Turkish olive oil. He said that the American definitions have been 10 % so far. “If the customs tariff for European Union suppliers (Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece) increases, then Turkish olive oil will have a price advantage.” The annual Turkish olive oil exports amounted to 900 million dollars.
Because of the “very good crop” in 2024, Turkish olive oil suppliers emerged as the second largest olive oil product and the largest olive on the table.
Meanwhile, the association sends a commercial delegation of olives and olives in olives from 17 Turkish companies, with the coordination of the Turkish Ministry of Trade, to Canada between September 8 and 11, 2025 on a commercial upgrade visit.
Dubai chocolate has become anger in the United States
Dubai chocolate has become a common scene in many food and sweets stores. In fact, the vision everywhere and popularity can be attributed to these chocolate varieties, as some chocolate says, to the rich flavor and the components of these chocolate that appeal to many American consumers who may have been drawn, at first, through the TIK TOK movie that offers this unique chocolate.
Dubai -based Dofreeze booth Taste Brand chocolate. ALNA Palmer, the company’s sales manager, received a fixed flow of potential buyers who admitted Dubai Chocolate business capabilities in the American market, although retail prices for these chocolate are much higher than other chocolate prices.
“We have worked since 1998 and have offered the prevailing bakery products … we are exporting more than 50 countries, including the United States, our largest market is the United Kingdom, Singapore, Middle East, etc.. The United Arab Emirates is exempt from customs tariffs,” Palmer said in an interview.
European food suppliers say that definitions can hit American consumers
The huge wings created by European suppliers also witnessed informal exchanges on the issue of customs tariffs. European trucks indicated that American consumers will have to search in their pockets to pay for the resulting high prices, thanks to the 30 % definitions on European Union exports. The Italian wine producers, known as UTV, described the 30 % expected wine tariff as a “ban” of about 80 % of Italian wine.
