Subject: Re: You'll Pay 17+% for Fresh Tomatoes
transportation?

It is *a* cost, but on a ship with 10+k packages of fruit/veg, the unit cost for shipping is not high. And if they ship 100+k boxes, the cost is quite low. It probably costs more to ship-and-store the produce within the US (i.e. moving the goods from ports to inland destinations such as the Midwest and the central US--NE, MO, KS, IL, IN, KY, TN, CO, MT).