Gilroy, California will probably hold the Garlic Capital of the World title for as long as it wants to claim it, but China is exporting garlic into the U.S. which sells at much lower prices than the local crop. Even with a 376% tariff, Chinese garlic is coming in cheaper and the produce is of equal quality; even the owner of Christopher Ranch says the cloves are “beautiful.” Some Chinese garlic makes it way past the tariff by being sent through another country such as Thailand. It is easy to claim a different country of origin and the higher the tariff, the more reason to get around it. “Trace mineral profiling” can be used to verify where the garlic was grown, but Customs can’t check all of it. I still have to get myself to the Garlic Festival one of these years. If local farmers are to be believed, I probably should not put it off too long.