Tomato growers hope new rules will bring relief

Tomato growers hope new rules will bring relief

The latest agreement between the U.S. and Mexico should provide

American tomato growers with better footing in the marketplace.

Mexico’s tomato industry has agreed to new antidumping suspension provisions which include better border enforcement, increasing floor prices, and monitoring imports while the U.S. will drop a 17.5 percent tariff.

“When consumption of a product, like tomatoes, has went from 12 pounds per capita to 20 pounds per capita in the last 25 years and the amount of production in the U.S.

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