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American cheese exports rose 20% last year to a record 613,000 metric tons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Brinkman pointed to earnings per share, a key metric that shows how profitable a company is.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Buying slowed a bit in 2025, but remained high at 863 metric tons that year.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

In 2024, prices for cocoa futures trading on the Intercontinental Exchange rose exponentially, going from around $4,200 a metric ton to start to year to peaking at more than $12,000 a ton by December.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

When at last he had finished his calculations, Cavendish announced that the Earth weighed a little over 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds, or six billion trillion metric tons, to use the modern measure.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson