The U.S. Department of Commerce intends to withdraw from the 2019 Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico. Termination of the agreement will be in 90 days. The Commerce Department says the agreement failed to protect U.S. tomato growers from unfairly priced Mexican imports. Commerce has been flooded with comments from American producers urging the agreement’s termination.
This action will allow U.S. growers to compete fairly in the marketplace. When the agreement terminates, the Commerce Department will institute an anti-dumping duty order on July 14, 2025, resulting in duties of 21 percent on most imports of tomatoes from Mexico. Commerce maintains 734 antidumping and countervailing duty orders, which provide relief to American companies and industries impacted by unfair trade. Antidumping and countervailing duty orders provide American businesses and workers with a mechanism to seek relief from the harmful effects of the unfair pricing of imports into the U.S.
