It is a Wonderful Pasta
A economics basics lesson narrated by Russ Roberts;
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For pasta eaten in the UK, most is made from wheat shipped from Canada, which is then processed by companies such as Barilla and De Cecco in Italy, which exported $3bn of pasta last year. After being transported by trucks through Europe, UK wholesale distributors, such as Princes, will then sell it on to supermarkets.
Wheat production itself should be relatively unaffected by the coronavirus. In Canada, grain production and harvesting is largely mechanical.
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For now, there are no problems with overall supply, while companies along the chain are frantically adapting their operations to meet demand.
“People will get their pasta,” said Mr Vacondio in Italy. “For the moment they are producing, they are packaging and they are shipping . . . of course we don’t know what’s going to happen in a month. It’s difficult to predict.”