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- Manlobbi
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Mad King Donald is placing a 17% tariff on most imports of tomatoes from Mexico, as he withdrew the United States from a decades-old trade agreement. He believes he can replace the imports with tomatoes grown in Florida and the Southeast... except, of course, as usual, he's wrong.
The United States imported $2.8 billion of tomatoes from Mexico in 2023, according to data from the World Bank, representing more than 85 percent of American imports.
The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, which represents companies that import and sell produce and flowers, said it was “disappointed” in the decision. It said that its members distributed vine-ripened, greenhouse-grown tomatoes from Mexico that are not replaceable by tomatoes grown in Florida and the Southeast, most of which are grown in an open field, picked green and gassed to induce a color change.And, oh, BTW, don't forget that Trump the pedo is all over the Epstein files.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/econom...
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Epstein list Don is relentlessly focused on reducing the price of "groceries," so he just imposed a 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes...
MAGAs rejoice!
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Toma-toes
Toes of the toma
De toes are on de feet
Defeat is not a word in Trump’s vocabulary
Vocabulary sorta rhymes with “constabulary”
ICE is a constabulary force
And ICE will never be de-feated , even though it steps on the toes of the Constitution.
Trust the plan. It’s cold, hard logic.
MAGA
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so he just imposed a 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes...
MAGAs rejoice!
I live in a small town in the desert southwest. For much of the year a lot of our produce comes from Mexico, Peru and Chile. Except for late spring and early summer, almost all the blueberries and strawberries come from Mexico and South America. It is amazing to me how much of our produce travels so far, and that these things are available year round. I'm sure the labor costs are much lower in those countries, but still...the transportation?
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transportation?
It is *a* cost, but on a ship with 10+k packages of fruit/veg, the unit cost for shipping is not high. And if they ship 100+k boxes, the cost is quite low. It probably costs more to ship-and-store the produce within the US (i.e. moving the goods from ports to inland destinations such as the Midwest and the central US--NE, MO, KS, IL, IN, KY, TN, CO, MT).
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Are they shipping blueberries and strawberries via SHIP? Wow. I was thinking they must be flying them in via 747s, but I suppose that just wouldn't be cost effective.
Peruvian blueberries are primarily shipped to the U.S. via ocean freight in refrigerated containers. While a small percentage is transported by air, the vast majority travels by sea, with the Port of Philadelphia being a major entry point. The blueberries are pre-cooled before being loaded into refrigerated trucks or reefer containers to maintain freshness during transit.
Blueberries from Peru typically arrive in the U.S. within 17 to 35 days via ocean freight. Air freight, while faster, is limited to smaller quantities. Transit times can vary based on the destination (East or West Coast) and the specific port of entry. s
Amazing. 17 to 35 days in transit. Wow.
I will say that the blueberries and strawberries we get from South America, even though not spoiled, almost never taste as good as the ones we can get in season from the US.
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Good.
Now we just need Climate Change to jack up price of wild salmon and oodles of organic vegetables.
Then put an excise tax on those items and use proceeds to built government owned grocery stores on the Democrat Inner City plantations.
