date:Oct 22, 2012
.S. consumer, because the tomatoes we bring to the U.S. market already command a high price, Ley said yesterday. Retail prices for the goods in the U.S. can vary from $1.20 a pound to $3.99 a pound during the course of the year, depending on the type of tomato, he said.
Reggie Brown, executive director of the Florida Tomato Exchange, a growers group, said politics has nothing to do with the request to end the agreement.
Its about simple economics and fair trade, he said. The goal of the U.S. g