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in the united states gorelick has been popular since the nineteen twenties in
recent times it's been the subject of trade wars and the commodity boom-bust
cycle
right now that three quarters of the world supply of garlic comes from china
china is the world's leading exporter of carbon
there is carla cronin the united states mostly in california but about half of
the costs of growing that garlic or labor costs and of course labor is much
cheaper in china which means that for the most part chinese garlic is much
cheaper than american garlic china has won many export markets for garlic
around the world by supplying a cheaper product
california farmers have lobbied the u_s_ government for tariffs and trade
restrictions on chinese garlic but they haven't been able to get what they
wanted
in the country of ireland however there is a very high import duty on garlic its
act to hundred and thirty two percent
there's a well-known recent legal case wherein importer was shipping garlic
into ireland and he labeled it as apple's because the import duty on
apple's was only nine percent he was caught him he will be going to jail of
course this makes for a higher price of garlic environment
the boom-bust cycle for garlic started around the time of the financial crisis
the demand for karla cat suddenly in two thousand a when many countries went
through a recession
in response chinese farmers planted about fifty percent of scarlet than they
had the year before
it turned out this was an overreaction and in two thousand nine the demand for
car like came back stronger than had been anticipated
on top of this there was a rumor that garlic would protect individuals against
swine flu that meet the demand for karla even stronger
at a national level suddenly the price of garlic grows by a factor of four in
china
in the number of cities are raised by a factor of ten anyone garlic growing
region it actually rose by a factor of four d very briefly at the time this was
called the garlic bubble
the history of garlic markets illustrates the general benefits of free
trade
trading agricultural products as an engine of economic growth but it also
shows that this path can be a volatile one
for more information on garlic markets simply google economics of garlic