U.S., Mexico reach tomato deal to avert trade war

Chicago Tribune ^ | February 2, 2013 | Doug Palmer

[Altariel]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government and Mexican tomato growers reached a tentative agreement on Saturday that reduces the threat of a costly trade war stemming from a U.S. decision last year to pull out of a 1996 bilateral tomato trade pact.

"I am pleased that we were able to come to an agreement on fresh tomato imports from Mexico that restores stability and confidence to the U.S. tomato market and meets the requirements of U.S. law,"€ U.S. Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sanchez said in a statement.

[Altariel]

Price of tomatoes to go up again...because our government and the Mexican government isn't convinced you are paying enough, Citizens!

[Uncle Miltie]

Oh noes! Not:

Tomato Wars!

[dragnet2]

We grow our own...No need for Chinese or Mexican tomatoes...

I have no desire to eat anything from Mexico or China.

[joe fonebone]

1.....2....3...4...

I’m gonna start a trade war...

waiting for C.N.N. ( you know who you are )

to chime in and call for tariffs on tomatoes..

[JRandomFreeper]

I grow my own. I'm not interested in eating fresh tomatoes grown in fields with no sanitation for the workers.

/johnny

[Revolting cat!]

A joke from California Central Valley.

- Why do Mexicans drive low-riders?

- So they can pick tomatoes without getting out of their cars.

[bgill]

The tomato seeds are sprouting in their little pots and the garden has been tilled. I’ve more than doubled the number of tomato plants for this year’s garden.

The not so funny comedian, George Lopez, once did a show in San Antonio for HBO. The entire hour was devoted to Mexican illegal pride and down with gringos. One skit was migrants workers, aka illegals, wiping vegetables on their butts. It was so digusting that his shows are now banned in this house.

[x1stcav]

I check labels and will not buy anything not grown here.

Like you, I’m growing more and more of my own which is a real challenge at 9494’.

[familyop]

More than enough tomatoes can be grown in the USA. But go on ahead with such trade. We can have currency wars instead. And the dollar will fall very far. The communistic, anti-American currency manipulations won’t go on without the coming consequences. Oil will go up, too.

[dragnet2]

Absolutely..Ya have to be really crazy or just plain stooopid to eat stuff from Mexico or from places like Communist China.

My wife will not buy anything we consume, unless it's labeled and says it's grown right here in the U.S.

If we can't get it here, or grow our own, we don't want it or need it.

[familyop]

joe fonebone wrote:
"1.....2....3...4...

I’m gonna start a trade war...

waiting for C.N.N. ( you know who you are )

to chime in and call for tariffs on tomatoes.."

The United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8: “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;...To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,...”

The Tariff Act of 1789 was the first national source of revenue for the newly formed United States.

Tariffs are better than government-connected bosses accusing American veterans of being commies by requiring them to swear in writing that they're not commies (production shops, decades ago), then making deals with foreign communist nations to destroy the USA while promoting big government unions and anti-family, anti-American NGOs for their daughters.

Government-linked, global interests have also sent their relatives, former employees and other emissaries to local commissioners' meetings to outlaw new, small manufacturing shops while promoting radical environmentalism and animal worship to further regulate against prosperity in our country.

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts

The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts

Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html

[Bigg Red]

Produce — or any food — from Mexico? No, thanks, even if it were free.

[Bigg Red]

I check labels and will not buy anything not grown here.

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Same here.

[BfloGuy]

a U.S. decision last year to pull out of a 1996 bilateral tomato trade pact

Oh, my nerves. A "bilateral tomato trade pact"?

Some will, no doubt, call this another example of failed free trade policies and invoke the evil NAFTA. But this isn't free trade.

It's "managed" trade and we are the victims.

It's time our government stopped "protecting" us and let us alone to conduct our lives as we wish.

[x1stcav]

When they repatriate THEIR citizens, and the ruling class here, secures the border, I might reconsider.

But, probably not, on all counts.