6 days ago
Trump imposes 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes
The duty came into force after the US withdrew from a long-standing agreement with its southern neighbour, arguing that the deal "had failed to protect US tomato growers from unfairly priced Mexican imports".US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said that "for far too long our farmers have been crushed by unfair trade practices that undercut pricing on produce like tomatoes".Mexico rejected accusations it had dumped its tomatoes on the US market at low prices and said the popularity of Mexican tomatoes was down to their good measure is expected to lead to higher prices at supermarkets and restaurants, such as pizza parlours and Mexican pizza sauces and salsas are among the products likely to be most 70% of tomatoes consumed in the US are imported from Mexico, according to advocacy group Florida Tomato of the newly imposed tariff argue that it will encourage consumers to buy tomatoes grown in the US, thereby boosting local the Mexican economy and agriculture ministry said it would be "impossible to substitute Mexican tomatoes" given the volume imported from Mexican government said it would try to negotiate a new deal before its producers were hit, but also promised to help Mexican tomato growers find new tomato growers first petitioned the US government for help in 1996, arguing that they were being undercut by Mexican growers, whom they accused of dumping their tomatoes in the US at a price lower than their normal order to protect its tomato growers, the US issued an antidumping order, imposing duties on imported tomatoes in order to make US tomatoes more attractive to then, the two countries have signed five agreements which suspended those tariffs in exchange for Mexico agreeing to sell their tomatoes at or above a minimum is the latest of these suspension agreements - signed in 2019 - that the US has now withdrawn US president has also threatened to impose 30% tariffs on all Mexican goods from 1 said this was because Mexico, in his view, had not done enough to stop North America becoming a "Narco-Trafficking Playground".Other countries, such as Brazil and China, as well as the EU trading bloc have also been threatened with US tariffs.
