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Securing long-term trade certainty with Canada and Mexico, President Donald Trump has signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Sun World International LLC, Palm Desert, Calif., has added a Chilean and two Peruvian grape companies to its licensees list.

With Food and Drug Administration inspections coming in 2020, a United Fresh Produce Association seminar set for Jan. 30-31 will help importers prepare for Foreign Supplier Verification Program compliance.

Members of the Peruvian Asparagus Importers Association have elected Jay Rodriguez and Walter Yager as co-chairmen of the group.

Two U.S. senators from New York are calling for federal investigations into unfair trade subsidies for Canadian onion growers.

The forecast for U.S. fruit and vegetable imports in fiscal year 2019 was raised by $200 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Sun World International, Palm Desert, Calif., has added three companies the list of marketers who can sell its proprietary grape varieties.

ProducePay has much more money to finance growers sending produce to U.S. markets.

Politicians and agriculture leaders were responding Dec. 10 to news of a breakthrough deal for the USMCA, expected to lead to ratification by Congress in December.

U.S. imports of both fruits and vegetables increased moderately in 2019, new trade figures reveal.