The U.S. government says it's placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

  • TryingSomethingNew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    1 day ago

    And who will be working those farms? But I’m sure somebody in the administration figured a way to short a stock involving it, somehow

    • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Nitpick: this would be shorting a future, not a stock.

      Futures are typically “physical” goods like oil, bananas, cheese, maple syrup, etc. there are also other types of futures.

      These commodities futures were originally created in the 1600s in Japan for rice, but they got their mass appeal in Chicago in the late 1800s.

      The trading floors in Chicago are pretty cool and have a ton of interesting history.

    • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      21 hours ago

      My old highschool now has the option for kids to opt out of PE instead you hop on the school bus and your 4 hour block is instead done on a local farm helping out.

      So children mostly I would assume.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        14 hours ago

        Its not a bad thing to allow highschool kids to experience real working conditions. Americans also need to see for themselves that working on a farm isn’t the horrible torture everyone acts like it is.