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On December 4, 2002, the Department of Commerce (the Department) signed an agreement which suspends the antidumping investigation on fresh tomatoes from Mexico. The parties to the agreement are the Department and Mexican producers/exporters accounting for substantially all exports of fresh tomatoes from Mexico to the United States.
Terms of the Agreement: The terms of the agreement require that the Mexican producers/exporters who are signatories to the agreement sell fresh tomatoes to their U.S. customers in such a way that will 1) eliminate completely the injurious effects of exports to the United States of the subject merchandise and 2) prevent the suppression or undercutting of price levels of domestic fresh tomatoes by imports of that merchandise from Mexico.
The new agreement incorporates provisions to overcome certain shortcomings of the old suspension agreement. Most importantly, the agreement contains provisions, developed in consultation with the U.S. Customs Service, which will greatly improve the overall operations of the new agreement and make the agreement easier to enforce.
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