The US is imposing a 17% tariff on most tomatoes imported from Mexico with immediate effect, the government said. The duty came into force after the US withdrew from a long-standing agreement with its southern neighbour,

The Trump administration is imposing a 17% tariff on most fresh Mexican tomatoes, the federal government said Monday, ending a yearslong agreement with the U.S.' southern neighbor over trade practices.

America’s biggest trading partners have tried tactics ranging from appeasement to retaliation to avoid higher tariffs. All find themselves faced with similar threats from Washington.

Trump announced the pact with Indonesia, a relatively minor U.S. trading partner, as he continued to press for what he views as better terms with trading partners and ways to shrink a huge U.S. trade deficit.

Antidumping duties are calculated to measure the percentage by which Mexican tomatoes have been sold in the United States at "unfair prices," the Commerce Department said in its statement. President Donald Trump on Saturday had separately threatened to impose a 30% tariff on imports from Mexico starting on August 1,