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UC-Riverside Nematologist Simon "Niels" Groen plans to dig deeper into how nematodes invade humans, livestock and plants, thanks a a large grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The Commerce Department has struck a deal with Mexican tomato producers to allow for trade to continue without tariffs, but under conditions expected to protect U.S. producers from underpriced imports.

The Trump administration announced it will resume collecting 17.5 percent tariffs on all chilled and fresh Mexican tomatoes after the Tomato Suspension Agreement expired on Tuesday.

The biotech portion of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is just one example of several new ag provisions that were added during the overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement – NAFTA 2.0 as some are calling it - over the past year of negotiations.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 – U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer isn’t ready to throw in the towel on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, but he expressed sharp disappointment Tuesday with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts for not accepting some U.S. proposals.