While 2020 is expected to become an unstable year due to the impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. market, statistics for 2019 show that the U.S. market has been steadily growing..
In 2019, the U.S. imported 700,064 metric tons, a 0.5 percent increase in comparison to 2018. While some might have expected that both January and February imports for 2020 would already show a decrease due to the coronavirus outbreak, the opposite is actually true.
