Commerce Department

Mexican tomato growers and the Commerce Department have reached an 11th-hour deal that will suspend an antidumping investigation into fresh tomatoes from Mexico, raise reference prices and include additional enforcement provisions.

The Cause of Action Institute is trying to pry the document loose via the Freedom of Information Act.

President Trump’s decision to delay and remove certain tariffs on Chinese imports was made unilaterally, without any concessions from Beijing, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday.

“We cannot ignore the threat carbon pollution poses to agricultural markets, industry, and other sectors of our economy. Nor can we ignore international trade exacerbating carbon dioxide emissions. We respectfully ask you to provide us with an update.”

Ongoing negotiations over a new suspension agreement covering tomatoes from Mexico are hung up over border inspections, which Florida growers defend as necessary for enforcement but Mexican growers and officials call “unacceptable.”

The U.S. has criticized the Appellate Body for continuously failing to meet its 90-day deadline in appeals.

“It is the least we can do to put in place a fair, orderly process to determine whether a business qualifies for a tariff waiver.”

“Brazil is a big trading partner. They charge us a lot of tariffs, but other than that we love the relationship.”

“The fundamental question now though is, ‘Will they go back to the point where we were before they changed their mind and backtracked on some of the understandings that had been reached?’”