US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic production
US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic production
The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.
Well I guess it's time to just not eat tomatoes during the off season.
American tomatoes would probably be smeared in e coli. Be careful out there my US friends.
At this point I have a difficult time trusting any tomatoes I don't grow myself.
Who is going to grow them? Disabled people? Also, lots of luck speed growing tomatoes.
There are means to do this!
It's called...lots and lots of artificial fertilizer...
As ICE kills a man on a tomato farm in California
All while deporting as many farm workers as they can get their hands on. The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.
You know it was always one of the big points that got brought up in hypothetical WW3 scenarios that the US has enough food to support itself even if it went totally isolationist. Kind of incredible that they found a way to fuck up one of their greatest advantages.
Are americans to good to work their own farms? What is it about americans that makes them incapable of manual labor?
Don't worry, it won't be long before they stop deporting them and instead force them to work on farms as slave labor. Maybe with somr promise that work will make them free or something.
I can't wait to buy American tomatoes in the fucking winter, after the tomato growing season is over.
I'm excited for a banana grown right in Wisconsin 😋
What could it cost? 10$?
Not a Trump fan, but year round tomatoes could actually be done. Regrettably barely anyone wants to invest in it. Indoor farming and hydroponics are a thing. They use less water and less/no pesticides. And they are great for “buy local” without having to ship them from another country. And you don’t have to pick them in the hot sun. So far I’ve seen lettuce and strawberries for sale in my local grocery that were grown this way.
Shipping from Mexico isn't very far, fyi. Mexico is closer to the entire southern and western US than those areas are to New England. To be clear, I support eating/buying local at every opportunity, but as international trading partners go, shipping from Mexico is about as efficient as can be.
Hydroponics and indoor farming add significant cost, also
They usually taste like water tho
We have them up north, on winter nights with low clouds, the sky appears orange.
The US has plenty of areas with a shitton of sun in the winter. Very dry areas, like southern Spain, or Israel, produce year round and with little available water, but well managed.
The Netherlands produce vegetables, competitive for export, with half the sun or heat.
Vegetables are one of the few sectors that can be repatriated in a short time through tariffs.
When you get into tree crops and such is when you have the same problem as with factories, years until production.
At least he learned that tariffing all the products, including those which you can’t produce domestically, is not the brightest idea
And who will be working those farms? But I’m sure somebody in the administration figured a way to short a stock involving it, somehow
Nitpick: this would be shorting a future, not a stock.
Futures are typically “physical” goods like oil, bananas, cheese, maple syrup, etc. there are also other types of futures.
These commodities futures were originally created in the 1600s in Japan for rice, but they got their mass appeal in Chicago in the late 1800s.
The trading floors in Chicago are pretty cool and have a ton of interesting history.
My old highschool now has the option for kids to opt out of PE instead you hop on the school bus and your 4 hour block is instead done on a local farm helping out.
So children mostly I would assume.
Its not a bad thing to allow highschool kids to experience real working conditions. Americans also need to see for themselves that working on a farm isn't the horrible torture everyone acts like it is.
Tomatoes are already shit as we genetically modified them to be nice and round, blotch free. Same mods also removed the sugars and acids, which are the two things that make a tomato a fucking tomato.
Anyway, growing and harvesting tomatoes is a cold stone bitch. I'm sure red-blooded Americans will be glad for the work! BTW, I'm in NW Florida. Even down here I can't grow year-round. Good luck with that.
You can grow year round anywhere using greenhouses…
You definitely can grow year round. This is a tiny part of what is called "the plastic sea" in Almería, Spain. The climate is like Arizona, dry and hot. They grow year round by managing light, heat and water. Almeria is part of Europe's vegetable garden.
Excuse me, we are american and we KNOW there is nothing left to learn about farming. We are already the best at it so take your mystical ideas somewhere else!
Except I'm allergic thanks to the pesticides used here.
Interesting, so is this just for domestic tomatoes or are there other veggies/fruit that you are allergic to?
Are all foreign tomatoes “safe” or are there other countries that use the same type of pesticides?
Im sorry to hear that. Even on organic tomatoes?
Organic farmers use pesticides.
Yup. Something in there reactivates my allergy.
You just know magas put real effort into being this stupid.
I didn't know US was a net producer of tomatoes.
We must eliminate the strategic tomato gap, this communist threat cannot be allowed to stand unchecked. /S
... while at the same time raiding local farms
The best way for this regime to be stupider. is to stay awake for more hours