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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
The U.S. lost its latest dispute with Canada over the country’s operation of a tariff rate quota for dairy imports under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, according to a Friday announcement from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Mexico wants more than just a presidential decree on its genetically modified corn ban in place as it enters the final phase of a dispute with the U.S., so the country is working to solidify the prohibition in its national food production standards.
The U.S. is escalating its dispute with Mexico over the country’s ban on genetically modified white corn and its intent to eventually bar all biotech corn from food and animal feed by calling for the establishment of a dispute panel under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
U.S. farmers understand that the outcome of the dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over Mexico’s attempt to block imports of genetically modified corn could set a precedent that will be key for trade with other countries around the world, U.S. Chief Agricultural Trade Negotiator Doug McKalip said Thursday.
Farm and biotech groups cheered when U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the Biden administration would take on Mexico in a dispute over Mexican biotech corn restrictions, but the process is likely to stretch on for months.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Friday that she is calling for dispute consultations with Mexico over the country’s efforts to ban genetically modified corn and its recent history of rejecting biotech seed traits.
Representatives of major pesticide and biotech seed companies gathered earlier this month in Mexico City to meet with Mexican ag groups and U.S. and Canadian government officials to flesh out concerns about the potential impacts of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s campaign against genetically modified corn and glyphosate, according to sources with knowledge of the meetings in Mexico.
The Mexican government continues to scoff at U.S. concerns over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's restriction on genetically modified white corn, but the threat of the constraint is real, and damages are already accruing, according to American farmers and farm groups.
