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更新时间：2026年5月29日 / 美国东部时间下午4:15 / CBS新闻
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番茄成为最新一款掏空消费者钱包的热门食品，与咖啡、香蕉和牛肉等商品一道推高了生活成本。
截至今年4月，美国政府数据显示，这种“水果”的价格较一年前上涨了近40%，而整体食品成本的涨幅为17%。根据美联储的数据，全美番茄的平均售价达到每磅2.69美元，创下历史新高。
相比之下，劳工数据显示，今年4月咖啡价格同比上涨18.5%，绞碎牛肉价格飙升19%，海鲜价格上涨12%。
富国银行农业食品研究所部门经理戴维·布兰奇告诉CBS新闻，有多个因素推动番茄价格上涨。美国于去年7月对墨西哥番茄征收17%的关税，此前美国退出了一项延续三十年的贸易协定，该协定允许从墨西哥免税进口番茄。尽管废除这项协定让美国农民受益，但消费者却感受到了成本压力。
联邦数据显示，美国征收的番茄关税已从2024年的仅16424美元飙升至近460万美元。布兰奇指出，2025年美国近90%的番茄进口来自墨西哥。
“由于美国大部分番茄供应依赖墨西哥，任何贸易政策的变化都会产生重大影响，”弗吉尼亚联邦大学商学教授布雷特·马西莫补充道。
恶劣天气和病害也间接推高了番茄价格：墨西哥和佛罗里达州的番茄生产受到冲击，供应减少。
“此次涨价的独特之处在于，番茄出现了短缺，而其他农产品却没有，”利哈伊大学供应链管理教授菲利普·科尔斯说道。
被称为“超市大师”的食品行业分析师菲尔·伦佩特还表示，伊朗战争推高了油价，进而推高了番茄成本。“受伊朗战争影响，番茄的运输成本变得更高。”
他指出，番茄通常依靠冷藏卡车运输，这些车辆需要更多柴油来驱动车辆本身以及为装载番茄的冷藏设备供电。
“当核心成本构成大幅上涨时，最终会产生巨大影响，”马西莫告诉CBS新闻。“所有这些因素同时凑在一起，情况有些反常。”
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Why have tomato prices surged nearly 40% in a year?
2026-05-29T16:02:00-0400 / CBS News
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Megan Cerullo Reporter, MoneyWatch
Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to discuss her reporting.
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Updated on: May 29, 2026 / 4:15 PM EDT / CBS News
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Tomatoes are the latest popular food to take a bite out of consumer wallets, joining items like coffee, bananas and beef.
As of April, government data shows the fruit’s prices were up nearly 40% from a year ago, compared with 17% for food costs overall. Across the U.S., tomatoes cost an average of $2.69 a pound, a record high, according to Federal Reserve figures.
By comparison, coffee prices in April had risen 18.5% from the trailing 12 months, ground beef had jumped 19% and seafood was up 12%, labor data shows.
Several factors are driving up tomato prices, David Branch, sector manager at the Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute, told CBS News. The U.S. in July imposed a 17% tariff on Mexican tomatoes after withdrawing from a three-decade-old trade agreement that enabled duty-free tomato imports from Mexico. Although scuttling the deal benefited American farmers, consumers are feeling the pain.
U.S. tariffs collected on tomatoes have surged from just $16,424 in 2024 to nearly $4.6 million, according to federal data. In 2025, nearly 90% of U.S. tomato imports came from Mexico, Branch noted.
“Because the U.S. relies on Mexico for the majority of its tomato supply, any changes in trade policy can have a large impact,” added Brett Massimino, a Virginia Commonwealth University business professor.
Bad weather and disease are also indirectly pushing up tomato prices by hurting production in Mexico and Florida, reducing supplies.
“What’s making it unique is the fact that there is a shortage of tomatoes and there isn’t a shortage of other produce,” said Phillip Coles, a professor of supply chain management at Lehigh University.
Food industry analyst Phil Lempert, known as the SupermarketGuru, also said the Iran war is fueling higher tomato costs through higher oil prices. “Because of the Iran war, the price of transporting tomatoes is more expensive.”
Tomatoes are typically shipped on refrigerated trucks that require more diesel to power both the vehicles and the refrigerators housing the tomatoes, he noted.
“When you have a major rise in a core cost component, it winds up having a big impact in the end,” Massimino told CBS News. “It’s a weird situation that all these things are coming together at once.”
Edited by Alain Sherter
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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