Overview

• Starting July 14, the US applied a 20.91 percent antidumping duty to almost all Mexican tomato imports after ending the 2019 suspension agreement.
• The USDA projects Mexican tomato export value will fall by 7.9 percent and volume by 5 percent in 2025 as exporters contend with higher tariffs.
• Manuel Antonio Cázares of Sistema Producto Tomate warns that without a new suspension accord small-scale growers face market exit and widespread bankruptcies.
• Mundi estimates that continued tariffs could inflict up to $8.3 billion in losses on Mexican producers and threaten some 3 million jobs in farm and supply chains.
• The Mexican government has convened urgent talks to explore proposals such as crop diversification, industrialization and expanded protected agriculture to mitigate tariff effects.