During the 2024 Valentine's Day season, Colombia exported over 59,000 tons of fresh cut flowers. Colombia is the United States’ largest supplier of flowers. (Fabiola Ferrero/The Washington Post) ...

Roses are ready to be shipped to the U.S. ahead of Valentine's Day, the biggest holiday of the year for fresh-cut flower sales, at the Mongibello flower company in Chia, north of Bogotá, Colombia ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tax on imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time: The wrangling over the South American country's willingness to ...

The United States is the world’s largest importer of cut flowers. This year Americans are expected to spend $27.5 billion on flowers this Valentine’s Day alone, a record-breaking sum according ...

Through November, the U.S. had imported $1.14 billion worth of cut flowers from Colombia, more than it brought in for all of 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Valentine’s Day Roses From Colombia Are Saved After Tariff Scare. A spat over deportations from the US nearly derailed one of the most profitable seasons for the world’s No. 2 flower exporter ...

President Donald Trump’s threat to tax imports from Colombia comes at a most inauspicious time. Valentine’s Day is less than three weeks away, and Colombia is America’s No. 1 foreign source ...

The move, in response to Colombia’s decision to reject two U.S. military flights carrying 80 migrants who the United States said had entered illegally, comes three weeks before Valentine’s Day.

This story was updated at 9 a.m. on Jan. 27. A trade war between the U.S. and Colombia which looked set to raise prices for Valentine's Day roses, fruits and nuts appears to have been averted.

From January through November, the U.S. ran a $1 billion surplus with Colombia last year in goods, as U.S. exports of $17.2 billion — including soybeans and cotton — topped imports of $16.2 ...

Just in time for Valentine's Day, trade dispute with Colombia threatens flower imports A worker at a farm that exports to the United States in Chia on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, Monday ...

From January through November, the U.S. ran a $1 billion surplus with Colombia last year in goods, as U.S. exports of $17.2 billion — including soybeans and cotton — topped imports of $16.2 ...