U.S. Ag Imports Grow and Ag Relief for COVID and Trade War Thursday Jan 7th, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. **Over the past quarter century, the U.S. has become one of the largest agricultural importers in the world, with imports up significantly from $27 billion in 1994 to $128 billion in 2019. agrimarketing.com reports, the role of NAFTA in 1994, superseded by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement last year, has played a central role in this surge, with U.S. imports from Canada and Mexico up six-fold from $8.2 billion in ...