Tomato Growers Love U.S./Mexico Pact, & That's the Problem

The consumer always seems to be on the outside looking in. The recent U.S-Mexico agreement on tomato trade is a good example. U.S tomato growers will benefit from it. Mexican tomato growers will benefit. And consumers will pay for it.

Yearly Mexican exports of more than $2 billion worth of tomatoes to the United States will no longer face anti-dumping charges of 17.5 percent tariff after the Commerce Department and Mexican growers struck a deal to set minimum prices and an inspection process on the fruit from Mexico.