El Salvador: Retail Foods
El Salvador continues increasing its U.S. consumer-oriented food imports at a steady pace, reporting a record of $169.5 million in sales in 2016. Increased consumption of U.S. food products is related to higher purchasing power fueled by remittances from Salvadorans living in the United States. Best performing categories for 2016 were: prepared foods, processed vegetables, non-alcoholic beverages, condiments/sauces and dog and cat food.