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Come fall, Americans will once again be stuck with flavorless grocery-store tomatoes. Because of tariffs, they’ll also be ...
The United States imposed a 17% tariff on tomatoes coming from Mexico. The tariffs were officially put in place on July 14th.
While Florida growers cheer the 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes, Arizona and Texas companies fear it could raise prices and ...
The action came after the Commerce Department ended a six-year agreement favored by U.S. distributors and importers.
The U.S. ends a nearly 30-year-old trade agreement with Mexico this month. Here's how it could impact the cost of this ...
Mexico currently supplies around 70% of the U.S. tomato market, up from 30% two decades ago, according to the Florida Tomato ...
Tomatoes are facing a supply squeeze. Delays at the border and higher prices at the grocery store could follow a new agreement requiring inspections of tomatoes from Mexico, some experts say.
President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Wednesday that the United States is in no position to replace Mexican tomato imports with ...
With new tariffs on tomatoes from Mexico falling during Maryland’s tomato season, farmers are hopeful that more people will ...
Avocados have been spared from tariffs for now. But tomatoes may not be so lucky. While President Donald Trump put tariffs on Mexican avocados on pause, the U.S. government plans to put a nearly ...
Mexican tomato imports have risen from a 20% share of the U.S. market in 1994, when the trade-liberalizing North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, to about 70% today.
Mexican tomato production vastly outweighs what’s harvested in the U.S. The U.S. grew 75,490 acres of fresh tomatoes in 2022, while Mexico counted more than 123,000 acres that produce year ...