Decision Closes the Door on Mexico’s Latest Attempt to Avoid U.S. Trade Law; Florida Tomato Exchange Calls for an End to Three Decades of Litigation and a New Focus on Fairness and Stability for American Tomato Growers
MAITLAND, Fla., June 30, 2026 — The U.S. International Trade Commission today affirmed that dumped imports of fresh tomatoes from Mexico continue 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 January 21, 2026, at the request of Mexican producers led by the Bioparques Group. On May 19, 2026, 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.
“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.”
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 largescale agricultural commodity groups whose members had reasons of their own to oppose enforcement. Today’s 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 thirty 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 percent to 30 percent, 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.”
“Enough is enough,” Guenther said. “The Commerce Department made its decision. The courts have ruled. The International Trade Commission has now ruled twice. It is time for the Mexican government, Mexican exporters, and U.S. importers to accept this outcome and move forward. American tomato growers want to focus our time and resources on growing tomatoes, serving American consumers, and strengthening the domestic food supply — not on defending against the next petition.”
“With today’s decision, the legal fight is over and the real work begins. The Florida Tomato Exchange will press U.S. Customs and Border Protection for rigorous enforcement of the antidumping duty order at every port of entry. We will work with Congress and the Trump Administration to ensure American tomato growers have the policy environment they need to invest, expand, and compete on fair terms. And we will continue urging American retailers, foodservice operators, and consumers to stand with the farmers who grow their food. After thirty years of unfair competition, the American tomato industry has a real chance to rebuild. We intend to take it.”
The decision reflects three decades of advocacy by tomato growers across the United States and the bipartisan support of members of Congress from eleven states. Together with the Commerce Department’s July 14, 2025 termination of the 2019 Suspension Agreement and imposition of antidumping duties at margins up to 273.43 percent.
