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ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Rosal, Colombia – 16 April 2025
1. Sunflower bud
2. Sunflower workers
2. Sunflower
3. Various of workers cutting the sunflower buds that will be exported to the United States
4. Sunflower
5. Workers cutting the sunflower buds
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Karen Farfan, Manager of Phytotec Flower Farm:
“This is one of the strategies that has been working for previous years and is not only for the United States, the largest percentage, but also to diversify our markets which is what we have been working, participating in trade fairs and suddenly increasing in other markets such as Japan, Europe, Australia which are very attractive markets. But historically we have always focused on the market in the United States.”
7. Various of employees preparing the sunflower stems to be sent
to the United States
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Enrique Farfan, Owner of Phytotec Flower Farm:
“Now we have to assume 10%, but I hope that in the conversations that we have we can renegotiate. That is something that we all have in mind to not to be so affected (by the tariffs).”
Reporter: "Don Enrique if you were affected how much could the losses be?"
Answer: "I think that if we do well it would be 5% to 10% ."
9. Various of workers preparing sunflower stalks to be sent abroad.
STORYLINE:
Enrique Farfán has weathered several economic crises over three decades with his fresh flower exporting company. Now he hopes to overcome the eventual effects of the 10% tariff imposed by the United States on Colombian products as part of its trade war abroad.
Colombia is the world’s second largest flower exporter, after the Netherlands. Eighty per cent of exports go to the United States, according to government figures.
The sector went from having no tariffs with the United States for more than three decades to dealing with a 10% tariff, which could cost 190 million dollars a year, according to estimates given to the local press by the Colombian Association of Flower Exporters.
For now, Farfán has not felt the tariff hit with the export of its flowers. His production continues, amid uncertainty, as the Mother’s Day season approaches.
Karen Farfán, administrative manager, says that they export 15 million stems a year, a third of them sunflowers.
The Colombian government has reaffirmed the need to diversify markets in the wake of the increase in tariffs imposed by the United States. This is not an easy task, given that it is Colombia’s largest export market. However, the South American country accounts for only 0.5 per cent of U.S. imports.
While the sector remains expectant, the Colombian government joined the long list of countries seeking to negotiate the tariffs imposed by Trump.
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