Rick Scott Wants Protections Against Illegal Mexican Strawberries
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Rick Scott is worried about illegal Mexican strawberries
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Naples, is pushing the federal government to take action to protect Florida’s strawberry harvest from foreign producers. In a July 2 letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Scott urged the federal government to investigate the “suspected illegal dumping” of Mexican strawberries during Florida’s peak growing and harvesting season. “The dumping […] The post Rick Scott is worried about illegal Mexican strawberries …
After the U.S. decided not to extend the T-MEC in its current form, the first political pressures began to appear to harden commercial actions against Mexican products. One of the first targets is strawberry, a market in which Mexico dominates the winter supply of the U.S. market and now faces an offensive from Florida with the possibility of being subject to an anti-dumping quota.
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