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The BTA on July 14, 2025 sent this statement expressing its disappointment that the Department of Commerce was withdrawing the U.S. from the agreement that has governed U.S.-Mexico tomato trade for decades. It’s a move that not only hits shoppers in the wallet by driving up the cost of Mexican-grown tomatoes, but it injects yet more disruption into North American cross-border trade.

The Border Trade Alliance on June 26, 2025 sent a letter to Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick urging him not to exit the 2019 Tomato Suspension Agreement (TSA) with Mexico. Withdrawing from this proven framework would disrupt a critical North American supply chain, significantly raise food prices for U.S. consumers, and endanger tens of thousands of American jobs tied to the cross-border fresh produce trade. 

The BTA on May 20, 2025 sent a letter to […]

American consumers can anticipate that prices on fresh tomatoes from Mexico will go up when the United States exits the Tomato Suspension Agreement between the two countries, says the Border Trade Alliance, an organization of public and private stakeholders that promotes cross-border trade.

In its April 3, 2025 statement, the Border Trade Alliance says it remains troubled by the maintenance of tariffs on other goods imported from Canada and Mexico. "We believe the U.S. should continue to seek opportunities to remove import taxes, which are passed onto consumers in the form of higher prices."

BTA submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging the refund of duties collected during the week of March 3, 2025.

Border Trade Alliance Chairman Pete Sepulveda, Jr. and BTA President Ms. Britton Mullen released the following joint statement about the planned March 4 imposition by the United States of 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico: “As we have said on multiple occasions, we celebrated when President Trump passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which modernized our country’s trade policy and reasserted North America’s position as the globe’s most economically competitive trading bloc."

Border Trade Alliance President Ms. Britton Mullen released the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s pause of new tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

Border Trade Alliance Chairman Pete Sepulveda, Jr. and President Ms. Britton Mullen released the following statements regarding the Trump administration’s imposition of new tariffs on USMCA trade partners Canada and Mexico.

The Border Trade Alliance on December 30, 2024, sent this letter to the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. urging Mexico to pause recently implemented regulatory changes affecting the textile trade.