The U.S. Commerce Department has suspended antidumping duties on unprocessed Mexican tomatoes after exporters agreed to more U.S. controls. The agreement increases the product categories subject to baseline price floors from one to four, and raises the reference price to reflect the current market.
More than 600 Mexican growers are presently signatories to the new agreement. Under U.S. law, the suspension agreement must prevent price undercutting and price suppression in the U.S. market and eliminate at least 85 percent of the dumping. There have been three previous suspension agreements covering imports of fresh tomatoes from Mexico since 1996.
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