US EditionUS imposes 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes after withdrawing from agreement
UNITED STATES, JUL 15 – The U.S. imposed a 17% antidumping duty to protect domestic growers after Mexico supplied 70% of U.S. tomatoes, aiming to curb unfair pricing that harmed American farmers.
- On July 14, 2025, the U.S. Commerce Department imposed a 17.09% duty, withdrawing from the 2019 Tomato Suspension Agreement.
- Initially agreed in 1996, the pact aimed to regulate tomato exports, but flaws included loopholes enabling Mexican dumping, prompting long-standing U.S. protection efforts.
- The duties calculate how Mexican tomatoes’ market share, with 4.3 billion pounds of 6.5 billion consumed, and measure how prices undercut fair value, Mexican agriculture associations said.
- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, `"For far too long our farmers have been crushed by unfair trade practices,"` while Mexican associations stated, `"The move will hurt Mexican producers,"` and the Commerce Department said duties address unfair prices.
- Jacob Jensen projects that costs could rise by 6–10% and 100,000 jobs may be at risk in Mexico, according to President Claudia Sheinbaum.
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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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