New 21% Tariff Will Make Fresh Tomatoes More Expensive
The International Trade Administration (ITA), an agency within the Commerce Department responsible for facilitating trade agreements, announced on April 14 its withdrawal from a 2019 trade treaty with Mexico. Starting July 14, most Mexican tomato imports will face an import duty of nearly 21 percent. President Donald Trump promised to deliver price relief for American families on inauguration day, but this action will ensure that Americans pay more for the fresh tomatoes used in so many staple recipes.
The Commerce Department signed an Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico and those producers and exporters “accounting for substantially all imports of fresh tomatoes from Mexico” in September 2019. The agreement terminated the investigation begun by the department in April 1996 as to whether fresh tomatoes from Mexico were being sold in the U.S. at “less than fair value.” Mexican tomato exporters and the Commerce Department agreed to suspend the investigation in 1996, 2002, 2008, 2013, an
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