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.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.caEnglish
    59·
    1 day ago

    All while deporting as many farm workers as they can get their hands on. The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      23 hours ago

      You know it was always one of the big points that got brought up in hypothetical WW3 scenarios that the US has enough food to support itself even if it went totally isolationist. Kind of incredible that they found a way to fuck up one of their greatest advantages.

    • bollybing@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      23·
      1 day ago

      Don’t worry, it won’t be long before they stop deporting them and instead force them to work on farms as slave labor. Maybe with somr promise that work will make them free or something.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      Are americans to good to work their own farms? What is it about americans that makes them incapable of manual labor?

      • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        The system is not profitable. People are not willing to pay the actual costs of food. They are happy to have a slave class however.