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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
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.
The WTO’s appellate body — key to resolving disputes among its 164 member nations — ceased to function about a month ago, indefinitely putting key cases on hold that the U.S. ag sector would like to see settled.
A crisis is looming for the World Trade Organization’s dispute resolution system as the Trump administration presses the international body to reform its ways and the U.S. ag sector could be a casualty in the coming showdown.
