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The U.S. Senate has passed legislation to address a shortage of agricultural inspectors at borders who inspect imports for invasive species and other potential threats.

Pumpkins can be carved into scary jack-o-lanterns this time of the year, but there’s something scarier when it comes to imported pumpkins: invasive species.

With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House of Representatives passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement with a vote of 385-41, setting up a vote in the Senate early next year.

Retaliatory trade tariffs continue to hurt U.S. fruit exports.

Produce Lovers, a vertically-integrated grower that ships blueberries from the Mexican state of Jalisco, is shipping conventional and organic berries through mid-June.

Avocados are kind of a big deal. We all knew that, of course, but take a peek at the chart below and you will see it in visual terms.

The winter fruit season has barely begun and public unrest and a strike at Chilean ports is not holding back fruit exports so far, Chilean fruit export sources report.

The Packer’s Global Organic Produce Expo — GOPEX — is providing attendees with a behind-the-scenes look at PortMiami, a hub of international trade and commerce.

The U.S. and China have reached a “phase one” trade deal that takes additional escalation of tariffs by both countries off the table but is lacking specifics on when existing tariffs U.S. fresh produce will be removed.

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