Poll...Colombian products in the USA or Europe?

sandman0011 says on Jun 13, 2008, 12:08:

Agriculture - products:coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp

Industries:textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds
Exports:$24.86 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:petroleum, coffee, coal, nickel, emeralds, apparel, bananas, cut flowers

Exports - partners:US 35.2%, Venezuela 11.2%, Ecuador 6.5% (2006)

Imports:$24.33 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, paper products, fuels, electricity

Imports - partners:US 28.2%, Mexico 8.3%, Brazil 6.5%, China 6.3%, Venezuela 5.9%, Japan 4.3% (2006)

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Mononoke28 says on Jun 13, 2008, 12:42:

I bought a very expensive purse at Wilson's Leather and after years of using it I happened to look at the label and it said Made in Colombia. Now I love it even more.

Diana

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kat1 (Moderator) says on Jun 13, 2008, 12:48:

I saw some Uchuvas.. really the label said from Colombia :))

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dwr says on Jun 13, 2008, 12:49:

I have a friend who exports dried Uchuvas. Like raisins only Uchuvas. Very good

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eywed says on Jun 13, 2008, 13:06:

Here is a product that is Sold all over the U.S.A. that most folks never knew it was a product of Colombia.



Thats right, Chicklets gum.

Ay Hombe!!!!!

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miamimike says on Jun 13, 2008, 13:30:

Don't they(Col) export these Chia Elmer Fudd Heads also,,,

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sanandressi says on Jun 13, 2008, 14:36:

I remember I bought some chocolate bars from Medellin at a TJ Max store. Kind of pricey....

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sloopskipper says on Jun 13, 2008, 15:19:

I bought an expensive (almost $300), but very handsome, leather carry-on bag, trademarked, Land from Colombia. I believe that was pre-Coach, and the year was 1978. That was a lot of money for something like that, in the late 70s.

At that time domestic U.S. leather-goods where like cardboard that was left out in the rain.

Since then I had some really nice leather jackets (which were not cheap) that I bought in the U.S. (before 2000), but made in Colombia.

It's not just coffee and flowers.

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Desideria (Moderator) says on Jun 13, 2008, 15:26:

Yeah, uchuvas. They're called "physalis" here. Sometimes I 've found bananas or platanos from Colombia at the local supermarkets.

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Joel y Luza says on Jun 13, 2008, 15:55:

My wife, when she comes up from Colombia, brings up these coconut balls that are SOOOOO GOOD! and also this Guyava fruit?/cream, things that are all over colombia! If they don't import those to the good ol' USA!!!

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miamimike says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:04:

Here in Miami you would think, with the huge Colombian Population, you would see more Col Products on shelves but, otherwise then in a few local stores/restaurants, you simply don't see them. Or if they do exist, they aren't on the Prime Location eye level store shelves.In our neighborhood Target store, I see men's sport coats made in Colombia under the brand name "Merona",,,Again, the Colombian Textile Industry is being decimated by the Chinese putting 'em out of Business. A shame since 20 years ago, Col put out some of the best cotton textile products in the world,,,

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Cerealkiller says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:05:

Just Physalis and maybe coffee...although colombian coffee unfortunately isn't as big in the UK as it is in some other parts of the world. Bananas for the most part come from Costa Rica or Ivory Coast...

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sloopskipper says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:39:

Mike, they've probably killed Colombia in leather, also. Most all the furniture, including higher end leather, here in Panamá is from China.

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goin_south says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:43:

my colombiana was pleasantly surprised, to shop in some of the (Many! as of the past two years!) Mexican tiendas and find some Colombian products.... here in So La

Where do we go from here?

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sloopskipper says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:44:

I had a very successful customer in the textile business, in Pennsylvania, with a worldwide client base. They had a highly automated weaving plant, but they were dumped by the Chinese.

I see them here at tradeshows with EVERYTHING!

But, probably most of the designs and manufacturing processes they have stolen.

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goin_south says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:47:

(And, not to hi-jack the thread, but... my colombiana is proving SHE IS A GREAT COOK!... so much that I may have to write a thread about it all ;-))

Where do we go from here?

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sloopskipper says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:50:

Sounds cool GS, maybe we can steal a couple recipes? I know very little of Colombian cooking, mostly rice and overcooked chicken (except, of course, consuelo con mariscos, love it!).

I made MEXICAN tonight.

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Monpirri says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:54:

I used to work in Macy's several years ago and the store carries Men's suits made in Colombia.

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IloveCidy says on Jun 13, 2008, 21:03:

Martha Stewart has several plants in Colombia.

I miss my novia!

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miamimike says on Jun 13, 2008, 21:22:

sloopskipper says on Jun 13, 2008, 16:44: flag

I had a very successful customer in the textile business, in Pennsylvania, with a worldwide client base. They had a highly automated weaving plant, but they were dumped by the Chinese.

I see them here at tradeshows with EVERYTHING!

But, probably most of the designs and manufacturing processes they have stolen.

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Hard for your Penna clients to compete against the Chinese who essentially have frozen their currency while ours is a true floating variety. Same thing that will sink Colombia's domestic industries and they are doing a pretty job at it right now. Lets check the Col-Chinese trade balance 2 years from now and note the difference,,,

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adrimm says on Jun 14, 2008, 02:36:

Coffee, roses, brand name clothing, some of those kitschy faceclothes that are compressed into a tiny puck..I've even seen granadillas "from Colombia".. Oh and when I was in school there was a mostly-mexican food store that periodically imported postobon beverages, brevas, and bunuelo-mix.

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goin_south says on Jun 14, 2008, 08:05:

I know,... the coffees, the fruits, and the flowers, but... Rubito.. what herbs? coming from Colombia, that we may not or do not have here?

Where do we go from here?

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goin_south says on Jun 14, 2008, 09:32:

serious Q, Rubito: what herbs, come from Colombia, that we do not get here?

Where do we go from here?

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Robert Jorge says on Jun 14, 2008, 18:04:

I bought my now brother in law, who lives in Colombia, a pair of black Levi's 501s in Sears. The tag said "hecho en Colombia." ... kind of wierd to buy jeans in the US at a 3rd of the Colombian price to give to a Colombian, and the jeans themselves are made in Colombia.

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Robert Jorge says on Jun 14, 2008, 18:06:

All the cut flowers in my local Walmart are "products of Colombia".

BEWARE of gold diggers.

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sloopskipper says on Jun 15, 2008, 10:44:

When I went to Perú I bought some children's clothing to donate to an agency which provides help to children of the indigenous in Cusco.

When I delivered them, I saw, you guessed it, “Hecho en Perú " and Colombia.

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