Mexico City – Mexico’s Economy Department says U.S. consumers could pay 38% to 70% more for tomatoes after the U.S. Commerce Department announced it would re-impose anti-dumping duties on Mexican imports.
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The Mexican agency says the country exports about $2 billion in tomatoes to the United States and supplies about half the tomatoes the U.S. consumes annually.
It said Tuesday that many small- and medium-sized Mexican tomato exporters won’t be able to pay the deposits required to export.
The deposits required to comply with the 17.5% tariff would amount to about $350 million, money that many Mexican producers don’t have.
In March the Commerce Department announced it was ending a 2013 suspension agreement in which Mexican growers promised to sell at fair prices, and that it would reinstate the 1996 tariffs.
Will have to eat cucumbers
I think pepper will work.
prices soaring but ecoli falling as Mexicans are known to deficate on farm produce.
Oy vey! Fish on Shabbos without tomato dip? Major tzoroh! That’s golus.
Mexico can keep their illegals and their tomatoes
hmmm. will have to buy tomatoes from California. same like with avocado
I like Mexico & Mexicans. I like tomatoes too.