The Commerce Department is reactivating an anti-dumping case against tomato imports from Mexico, just one month after signing a deal to resolve the dispute.
The suspension agreement reached remains in effect, Commerce said Monday. The investigation was continued at the request of Red Sun Farms and the Florida Tomato Exchange (FTE).
The antidumping investigation by Commerce’s U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) had been nearly complete when it was shelved after a new suspension agreement was reached August 20 and finalized September 19. FTE said it was requesting the investigation be reopened amid evidence the Mexican tomato industry was looking to launch legal challenges to the new agreement and could even seek to withdraw from it.
Commerce is required under the Tariff Act of 1930 to resume the antidumping investigation upon the request of interested parties when there is a suspension agreement in place.
The USITC will hold a public hearing on the situation October 24.
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