MAITLAND, Fla. — The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently affirmed that dumped imports of fresh tomatoes from Mexico are continuing to threaten the U.S. tomato industry, ending the Changed Circumstances Review brought by Mexican producers and keeping the antidumping duty order on fresh tomatoes from Mexico fully in force.
The decision concludes a review the commission instituted on Jan. 21 at the request of Mexican producers led by the Bioparques Group. On May 19, American tomato growers from Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, and California testified at a public hearing in defense of the order. The Mexican producers were joined in opposition by Canadian greenhouse tomato growers and controlled environment agriculture representatives with substantial Mexican production.
The decision was made on June 30.
“Today’s decision is a victory for fair competition and the rule of law,” said Robert Guenther, Executive Vice President of the Florida Tomato Exchange. “American tomato farmers have spent three decades waiting for relief from dumped Mexican tomato imports under U.S. trade laws as Congress intended. This decision confirms we’re on the right track.”
Background
The commission’s decision closes the most recent in a series of Mexican efforts to undo the antidumping duty order. Those efforts included litigation at the U.S. Court of International Trade, which on April 17, 2025, sustained the Commerce Department’s antidumping investigation of Mexican fresh tomatoes. They also included a sustained Washington lobbying campaign aimed at administration officials, multinational business organizations, and large-scale agricultural commodity groups whose members had reasons of their own to oppose enforcement.
The decision is the second time the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled unanimously in support of American tomato growers in this case. The first was in 2019.
“For 30 years, American tomato growers have been told that one more agreement, one more renegotiation, one more compromise would finally solve the problem. Five suspension agreements later, our domestic market share has dropped from 80% to 30%, farms have closed, jobs have been lost, and rural communities have been hollowed out. Last July, the Commerce Department finally said enough is enough — and the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate the failed 2019 Suspension Agreement and enforce U.S. antidumping law was the right call. Today’s ITC decision confirms it.”