WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mexican tomato exporters are conducting unfair trade practices and dumping tomatoes into the U.S. market, despite the 2019 Tomato Suspension Agreement. This is forcing American tomato farmers out of business and destroying the domestic tomato industry.
Rep. Cammack joined U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Congressman Jim Costa (D-CA) in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging the department to terminate the 2019 Tomato Suspension Agreement with Mexico and defend the American tomato industry.
– “The Commerce Department has already documented more than a hundred violations of the 2019 Suspension Agreement, including continued dumping. The Suspension Agreement is not working, and as it cannot be modified to work under existing law, antidumping duties must be imposed to sufficiently remedy ongoing injury to the domestic tomato industry.
– “Immediate termination of the 2019 Suspension Agreement and imposition of antidumping duties is necessary to stop the destruction of the American tomato industry by unfairly traded Mexican tomatoes.”
