Excerpts from an email from my spice seller of choice (zero plastic, fully recyclable/biodegradable-in-less-than-a-millenium shipping materials, regularly tested for heavy metals):

«The proposed new tariff on imported vanilla? 47%. Madagascar exports tons of vanilla to the US (over 2,000 metric tons to be exact!). We don’t grow vanilla in the U.S. at scale—so of course we import it. That’s how global trade works. We send out things like cloud storage and app development—they send us delicious goodies. This is what is currently being called a “trade deficit” since the services the US provides are not included in this calculation.

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I’m not telling you to panic-buy vanilla (unless your landlord takes payment in baked goods, I don’t recommend stocking up like it’s rent money). In uncertain times like this, it’s a good time to only buy what you need. And considering that financial and environmental sustainability is one of our core tenants, we’d never encourage you to buy more than necessary.»

https://gneissspice.com/ if you feel like patronizing them.