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Inside U.S. Trade - 08/23/2019

Mexican tomato growers, Commerce reach last-minute suspension agreement

August 21, 2019 at 12:35 PM
Editor's note: This story was updated after initial publication to include the correct percentage of inspections. Mexican tomato growers and the Commerce Department have reached an 11th-hour deal that will suspend an antidumping investigation into fresh tomatoes from Mexico, raise reference prices and include additional enforcement provisions. The draft agreement comes after months of increasingly contentious talks, with the two sides at an impasse over increased border inspections, among other provisions. At the request of the Florida Tomato Exchange,...


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