The Produce Reporter Week in Review – July 26, 2019

Tariff discussions diverge between North and South, and the tomato industry starts another chapter of suspension agreement battles. 

What would the week be without tariff news? We had more. We also heard from Walmart executives on their digital ambitions.

You already know what the big story was for this week. We finally got an answer on how tariffs will affect fresh produce.  

This week tariffs still loom large, and we had retail lawsuits, a big discounter sale, and a restructuring vertical farmer.  Tariff deadline approaches  April 2 is the day when the Trump administration says 25 percent tariffs will begin again for imports from Canada and Mexico, including fresh produce. Industry anxiously awaits tariff resolution – Produce […]

Tariffs are back in the news, and they were in place for a three-day stretch in early March, which has thrown importers for a loop. And FDA has postponed the food traceability rule by 2½ years.  FDA delays traceability rule  Last fall, an FDA spokesperson told the produce industry not to expect a delay in […]

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include suspending the businesses’ PACA licenses and barring […]