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US imposes 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes after withdrawing from agreement
UNITED STATES, JUL 15 – The 17% tariff ends a 2019 deal and aims to protect U.S. growers amid concerns Mexican tomatoes were sold at unfair prices, with imports making up 70% of the U.S. market.
- On Monday, July 14, 2025, the U.S. government announced it would levy a 17% tariff on the majority of fresh tomatoes imported from Mexico following unsuccessful negotiations in Washington.
- This action followed the Commerce Department's late April withdrawal from a 2019 agreement that addressed allegations of Mexico exporting tomatoes at artificially low prices.
- Mexico now provides nearly 70% of the tomatoes consumed in the United States, a significant increase from about 30% twenty years ago, leading American tomato farmers to seek stronger safeguards.
- In correspondence addressed to the head of the Commerce Department, the Chamber of Commerce along with 30 business organizations expressed worry that ending the agreement might trigger retaliatory measures affecting additional U.S. industries.
- The tariff may raise U.S. retail tomato prices by about 8.5%, potentially aiding the shrinking domestic tomato industry but increasing costs for consumers and businesses.
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With this new measure the Executive seeks to curb dumping practices by foreign companies and benefit the domestic agricultural sector
Mexico City, 15 Jul (EFE).- Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that she rejected the reactivation of a compensatory quota of 17.09 % for imports of Mexican tomato after the U.S. officially withdrew the Tomato Suspension Agreement (TSA) and said that it will continue to be exported to the neighbor of the north because “it has no substitute.” “We do not agree with this measure taken by the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is an agree…
Trump Adds Tariffs to Mexican Tomatoes
“The Trump administration announced that it would impose a 17 percent tariff on most imports of tomatoes from Mexico, as it withdrew from a decades-old trade agreement that had prevented those levies from snapping into place,” the New York Times reports. “The tariffs will add to the price of a year-round grocery store staple for many Americans, while funneling more business to domestic tomato growers, largely in Florida.”
The imposition of a 17% tariff on Mexican tomato has opened a new front between the United States and Mexico. The U.S. Trade Secretariat announced on Monday the reactivation of a compensatory quota resulting from a 1996 complaint filed by Florida producers against their Mexican counterparts for alleged unfair trade practices. Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum has breast-fed this Tuesday to defend Mexican farmers against this new tax. “We do n…
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