Pick up a jar of chili crisp at 99 Ranch Market.
It was made in a factory somewhere in Asia, by people no American regulator has ever met, under conditions no American inspector watched.
Federal law says somebody in the United States is nonetheless legally responsible for whether that factory is safe.
Not the factory. Not the shipping line. A specific American company, which must have analyzed the hazards, evaluated the supplier, and in some cases audited that plant on site within the past year.
That requirement is the reason importing groceries is a fundamentally different business from selling them.