The United States warned that it will continue to supervise that the regulation of agricultural biotechnology in Mexico is based on science and that American producers maintain access to this market, in line with the provisions of the TMEC.
This was announced this Thursday the Office of the United States Commercial Representative (USTR) by welcoming the extent that the Mexican government made yesterday to leave various restrictions on the use of genetically modified corn.
“The United States will continue to closely monitor the compliance by Mexico of its commitments under the TMEC to ensure that the agricultural biotechnology measures of Mexico are based on science and provide to US corn producers the access to the market that Mexico agreed to provide In the TMEC, he indicated in a statement.
Mexico reversed the restrictions after a ruling against him in December of a commercial dispute panel requested by the United States in the framework of the commercial treaty.
Mexico, which is self -sufficient in white corn, used for tortilla production, imports large volumes of transgenic yellow corn from the United States, mainly intended for livestock feeding and processed food industry.
In an agreement published on Wednesday in the Official Gazette of the Federation, Mexico eliminated several provisions of a decree of 2023 that prohibited the use of transgenic corn in tortillas and mass, in addition to ordering government agencies the progressive elimination of its food use For animals and in the processed food industry.
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“The action of today today declares two sets of measures that the USTR successfully challenged in the TMEC dispute: an immediate prohibition of the use of mass and tortillas and an instruction to the Mexican government agencies to gradually eliminate the Use of transgenic corn for other food uses and food for animals, ”said UST.
The office recalled in its statement that in 2024, the United States exported $ 5.6 billion to Mexico, the largest American corn export market.
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After the favorable panel to the United States, Mexican authorities said they did not agree with the ruling, but that they would respect the decision.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has said that he hopes that Congress, widely dominated by Morena, approves this year a prohibition for planting in the genetically modified corn country.
With Reuters information
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