The US president has imposed a 17 per cent tariff on fruit exports from the southern neighbour to save the dwindling number of local farmers…Mexico supplies more than 60 per cent of the fresh tomatoes consumed in the United States, a clear example of how the country has gained market share in various sectors, becoming the US’s largest trading partner since the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force in 1994…Mexico’s National Agriculture Council has stated that it is the consumers who will pay, predicting a price increase of 11.5%, also because those grown in the US are of different species
