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If you buy Valentine's Day flowers at a shop in South Florida, or anywhere in the U.S., they almost certainly came from South America and got inspected at Miami International Airport.

If you buy Valentine's Day flowers at a shop in South Florida, or anywhere in the U.S., they almost certainly came from South America and got inspected at Miami International Airport.

By Wendi Grossman May 7, 2021 U-S Customs and Border Protection specialists putting the petal to the metal at Miami International this Mothers Day. Some 90-percent of all flowers imported from South America pass through Miami International before being distributed across the country so customs specialists have been working non-stop inspecting nearly a billion cut flower stems mainly from Colombia and Ecuador. Abel Serrano, Branch Chief for Agriculture Air Cargo at Miami International, says di...

By Wendi Grossman May 7, 2021 U-S Customs and Border Protection specialists putting the petal to the metal at Miami International this Mothers Day. Some 90-percent of all flowers imported from South America pass through Miami International before being distributed across the country so customs specialists have been working non-stop inspecting nearly a billion cut flower stems mainly from Colombia and Ecuador. Abel Serrano, Branch Chief for Agriculture Air Cargo at Miami International, says di...

By Wendi Grossman May 7, 2021 U-S Customs and Border Protection specialists putting the petal to the metal at Miami International this Mothers Day. Some 90-percent of all flowers imported from South America pass through Miami International before being distributed across the country so customs specialists have been working non-stop inspecting nearly a billion cut flower stems mainly from Colombia and Ecuador. Abel Serrano, Branch Chief for Agriculture Air Cargo at Miami International, says di...

By Wendi Grossman May 7, 2021 U-S Customs and Border Protection specialists putting the petal to the metal at Miami International this Mothers Day. Some 90-percent of all flowers imported from South America pass through Miami International before being distributed across the country so customs specialists have been working non-stop inspecting nearly a billion cut flower stems mainly from Colombia and Ecuador. Abel Serrano, Branch Chief for Agriculture Air Cargo at Miami International, says di...

By Wendi Grossman May 7, 2021 U-S Customs and Border Protection specialists putting the petal to the metal at Miami International this Mothers Day. Some 90-percent of all flowers imported from South America pass through Miami International before being distributed across the country so customs specialists have been working non-stop inspecting nearly a billion cut flower stems mainly from Colombia and Ecuador. Abel Serrano, Branch Chief for Agriculture Air Cargo at Miami International, says di...

By Wendi Grossman May 7, 2021 U-S Customs and Border Protection specialists putting the petal to the metal at Miami International this Mothers Day. Some 90-percent of all flowers imported from South America pass through Miami International before being distributed across the country so customs specialists have been working non-stop inspecting nearly a billion cut flower stems mainly from Colombia and Ecuador. Abel Serrano, Branch Chief for Agriculture Air Cargo at Miami International, says di...

By Wendi Grossman May 7, 2021 U-S Customs and Border Protection specialists putting the petal to the metal at Miami International this Mothers Day. Some 90-percent of all flowers imported from South America pass through Miami International before being distributed across the country so customs specialists have been working non-stop inspecting nearly a billion cut flower stems mainly from Colombia and Ecuador. Abel Serrano, Branch Chief for Agriculture Air Cargo at Miami International, says di...

Customs officials inspect flowers head of Valentines Day February 11, 2021 at 4:40 PM EST - Updated February 11 at 4:40 PM Flower sales are in full bloom with only three days until Valentines Day. And most flowered ordered around the country land in South Florida first. Boxes of bouquets were offloaded and lowered onto the tarmac at Miami International Airport on Thursday in the final days before Valentine’s Day. From there, the fresh flowers, which were imported into the United States, w...