Avocado grower Mission Produce says it will try to work around Mexico tariffs, but holds off on predicting exact impact

Avocado grower Mission Produce says it will try to work around Mexico tariffs, but holds off on predicting exact impact

Avocado grower Mission Produce Inc. on Monday said it would try to work around any tariffs on imports from Mexico, but its outlook for the months ahead didn’t include the impact of those extra import taxes on business.

Avocados become mainstream exemplar for tariff concerns  - Produce Blue Book

Tariff threats on fresh fruit and vegetable imports and exports have the industry in a state of concern about business uncertainty.  Each commodity has its own issues and will be affected differently than others should tariffs become real.  Outside of the produce industry, bigger sectors like energy, automobiles, steel, and aluminum tend to grab headlines.  But subscribers of the Wall Street Journal over the weekend got to read about a familiar …

Photo: Monterrey Reform Agency, NL.- Currently, the average American consumes about 4 kilos of avocados a year, and if that sounds like a lot of avocados, it is because it is, since since 2000, domestic consumption has quadrupled, The Wall Street Journal pointed out. The newspaper stressed that in the 1970s, consumption was less than half a kilo and in the 1990s it was still less than a kilo. He pointed out that the reason why the consumption of…

Feeding the Borderlands and Beyond: A Q&A with Yoli Soto, Founder of Borderlands Produce Rescue

Yolanda Soto, founder of Borderlands Produce Rescue at the organization’s warehouse in Nogales, Arizona. (Photo credit: Melissa del Bosque)Subscribe nowLast Tuesday morning, just as President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico went into effect, I visited a produce warehouse in Nogales, Arizona. There, I found Yolanda “Yoli” Soto sitting in her colorful, painting-filled office overlooking the warehouse crowded with boxes of fruits and vegetables. Founder …

Mexican avocado tariff: Who will pay the price?

The Mexican avocado market is facing a scenario of uncertainty after the announcement of 25% tariffs by the U.S. government; a measure that has been postponed twice and is now expected to come into force on April 2. This situation has generated concern among producers and exporters, who are highly…