Florida House Members Press for AD/CVD Seasonality Plan
All 27 members of Florida's delegation to the House of Representatives are pressing U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to find a way to make Florida fruits and vegetables more competitive with Mexican imports. Farmers cannot bring a typical antidumping or countervailing duty case against the imports because growers in other regions don't agree that the competition is unfair, so there isn't a majority vote to bring the case.
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On July 8, the group, led by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., said it expects Lighthizer to follow through with his promise to come up with a plan to address the harm to Southeastern growers by Sept. 1. The members asked him to coordinate closely with their staffs on that plan.
“The Florida industry’s level of concern and frustration over Mexico’s unfair fruit and vegetable practices is at an all-time high,” they said, and complained that Mexican produce increased its U.S. market share by 17% this winter and early spring, compared with a year earlier.