In 2001, the United States imported about $4.4 billion worth of ingredients processed from plants or animals, AP's analysis shows. By last year that total leaped to $7.6 billion -- a 73 percent ...

It is often made using fermented grains, potatoes, corn, rice, rye, sorghum, sugar beet molasses or wheat. Primarily vodka is made up of water and ethanol and has a minimum alcohol content of 40 ...