The U.S. government says it's placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

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.

  • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    American tomatoes would probably be smeared in e coli. Be careful out there my US friends.

  • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 hours ago

    Who is going to grow them? Disabled people? Also, lots of luck speed growing tomatoes.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.caEnglish
    34·
    6 hours ago

    All while deporting as many farm workers as they can get their hands on. The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.

  • kebab@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    At least he learned that tariffing all the products, including those which you can’t produce domestically, is not the brightest idea

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    57·
    11 hours ago

    I can’t wait to buy American tomatoes in the fucking winter, after the tomato growing season is over.

    • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      9 hours ago

      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.

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        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

      • Enceladus@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        We have them up north, on winter nights with low clouds, the sky appears orange.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      22·
      6 hours ago

      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.

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Given that tomatoes suffer when nighttime temperatures start going below 55°F (13°C), there is pretty much nowhere in the continental US where they can be grown successfully year-round without some sort of environmental control or protection.

        • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          19 minutes ago

          environmental control or protection.

          That’s what they elsewhere call “greenhouse”.

  • TryingSomethingNew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    12 hours ago

    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

    • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      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.

    • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      12 hours ago

      Jesus Christ this is the absolute dumbest time line…ice… ice did this

          • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            The U.S. has been manipulated into this hellhole situation just like those raped thirteen year old girls - promises of nice things and candy.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    10 hours ago

    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.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      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.