Mexico Bans GMO Corn
Tara Vander Dussen
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In 2022 the United States exported nearly 63 million metric tons of corn. Mexico, China, and Japan were the top 3 on that list, however, Mexico has now banned imports of genetically modified white corn for making tortillas last month while accepting imports of GMO yellow corn intended for livestock feed and industrial processors. The United States is now asking the Mexican government to provide scientific research to justify this policy change. Learn more about the action being taken below.
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With corn-state senators demanding speedy action, U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday that she would not allow a dispute with Mexico over genetically modified corn “to go on indefinitely.” A 30-day period for technical consultations between the nations, arguably the last chance to avert a USMCA trade complaint, expires on April 7.?
Mexico, the No. 1 market for U.S. corn exports, banned imports of genetically modified white corn for making tortillas last month while accepting imports of GMO yellow corn intended for livestock feed and industrial processors. The United States responded on March 6 by asking for consultations under USMCA rules for Mexico to provide scientific justification for its biotechnology policy.
U.S. farm groups have called on the administration to dismantle trade barriers to selling corn to Mexico. If the administration files a USMCA trade complaint, a panel of trade experts would be appointed to resolve the dispute. The United States is the world’s largest corn grower and a fierce defender of the safety of genetically modified commodities. The lion’s share of U.S. corn is grown from GMO seeds.?
The U.S. agricultural attaché in Mexico said corn imports, which set a record last year, would decline by 4% this marketing year. “The restriction on GE corn use is expected to impact white corn imports into Mexico, used primarily in the tortilla industry,” said the attaché in an annual grain and feed report. Imports would rise by 500,000 tonnes, to 17.9 million tonnes, in the 2023/24 marketing year, she said. Attaché reports are not official USDA data.
To read the full story, you can find it here: https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/biden-trade-strategy-stronger-ties-with-like-minded-countries
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1 年Good for Mexico. There is a way of understanding nature, in but a single principle. When we do this, we begin to understand the dangers of genetically modified foods. When we understand nature to communicate; we see a number of things: all things exist to form symmetries, to form what we call fine structures, or "energy" in four new ways. This energy forms out of nowhere it seems, out of thing air, when symmetries are "found." As a symmetry forms, it creates a temporary fine structure; four species of them. And, when this happens, the flux formed includes the very distance between entangling partners. And so we have things like black holes forming at the center of every galaxy. We have claps of thunder, as large systems of communications exist in storms, revealing sonic booms, from "instant" processes of found symmetries, occurring over vast distances. We see this and feel this great connection to all things great and small, merely as a consequence of being human, or being alive. The four chambers, four fluid filled ventricles in our brains, are sensitive to these communications, and are in fact a most primitive sensory organ system. Although this is not something we teach in medical schools yet. MARK applied physics