{"id":20521,"date":"2024-06-06T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=20521"},"modified":"2024-06-06T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:03:48","slug":"tomato-production-in-mexico-up-2-amid-dumping-fears-in-the-u-s-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2024\/06\/06\/tomato-production-in-mexico-up-2-amid-dumping-fears-in-the-u-s-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato production in Mexico up 2% amid dumping fears in the U.S. market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Forecasts show that tomato production in Mexico will increase to 3.3 million tonnes<\/u><\/a> in 2024. This at a time when the U.S. market wants to check cross-border \u201cprice dumping\u201d of Mexico\u2019s tomatoes through tariffs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

USDA\u2019s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) reported on June 4, 2024 that it expects Mexico’s production to increase by 2% over 2023\u2019s 3.22 million tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAS cited climate change as a key challenge to tomato yields but countered that greenhouse cultivation is a mitigating factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leader in tomato production in Mexico still remains Sinaloa on the Pacific coast, whose 2023 national production share was 22%<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other leading production areas are the central region\u2019s San Luis Potosi, avocado-rich Michoac\u00e1n<\/u><\/a> and Zacatecas in north-central Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dumping Across the Border<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At the same time when tomato production in Mexico is improving, the United States\u2019 Congress is contemplating import tariff increment to reduce \u201cdumping.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to studies, Mexico\u2019s tomatoes compete unfairly with their American counterparts in the U.S. market. 2024 estimates show that their prices are 20.91%<\/u><\/a> below the American average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This estimate is way lower than that of a 1996 review that revealed cross-border prices as 188% less than those in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, Congress could bring in tariffs to insure price parity and this would mean a 21% tomato price raise in the U.S..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\u00a0tomatoes in the U.S<\/u><\/a>., already average $2 a pound, customers could pay $2.24 a pound upon\u00a0the tariff.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico remains the number 1 exporter of tomatoes into the U.S. market and in 2022 alone, it supplied 1.81 million tonnes, equal to 90% of all U.S.\u2019 tomato imports. This is despite the fact that annual tomato production in Mexico is lower than that of the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, improving tomato production in Mexico may encounter export tariff increment plans by the U.S. congress. For that matter, below are production, export and consumption statistics that drive Mexico\u2019s tomato industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico Tomato Statistics<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mexico is a net producer and exporter of tomatoes. The country produced 4.149 million tonnes<\/u><\/a> of tomatoes in 2021. This output earned Mexico the 8th<\/sup> rank worldwide after Spain, Egypt, Italy, the U.S., Turkey, India and production leader China.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is the world\u2019s top tomato<\/strong>–<\/strong>exporting nation? <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico ranked the world\u2019s biggest exporter of raw tomatoes in 2021 worth\u00a0$2.7 billion<\/u><\/a> or 25.7% of the global exports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What portion of Mexico\u2019s tomatoes is processed?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While only a small portion of the country\u2019s \u00a0tomato value chain, processed tomatoes in Mexico reached\u00a040,000 tonnes<\/a>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s the consumption rate of tomatoes in Mexico?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico had a yearly per capita consumption of tomatoes of\u00a013.4 kg\u00a0<\/u><\/a>per person in 2022. The country consumed 1.8 million tonnes of tomatoes in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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