Posted 14 July 2025 by: Admin #Various

A decades-old trade agreement between the US and Mexico expires Monday, potentially triggering 20.9% tariffs on Mexican tomato imports that could reshape American grocery bills and restaurant menus overnight. The collapse of the Tomato Suspension Agreement threatens to increase consumer prices by 10% while forcing small business owners like Teresa Razo to make desperate calculations about their survival. What this means for your pizza slice, pasta sauce, and salad prices reveals a complex battle between American growers crying “unfair dumping” and Mexican producers who claim they’ve played by the rules for over two decades.

After nearly three decades of uneasy cooperation, the US-Mexico tomato…

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