Mexico refuses to do new changes to the decree in which it limits the use of genetically modified corn, in the middle of a panel requested by the United States on Mexico’s policy on transgenic grains, the economy minister said on Monday. Rachel Buenrostro.
In mid-February, Mexico published amendments to the first decree of the end of 2020, in which it softened its hard line on genetically modified corn and allowed its use for livestock and industrial consumption of human foodamid a growing dispute with the United States.
The new decree has ban on the use of GM corn as “human food”which he identified only as the flour used to make tortillas, a staple of the Mexican diet.
“No,” the official said firmly. Reuters in an interview when asked if Mexico was willing to make a new modification to the text to assuage US and Mexican industrialists’ fears that at least corn for animal consumption would be unrestricted.
“The current legal framework does not put imports at risk,” he stressed in link to U.S. statements about the extent of the measures they are selling grain to a Latin American country.
Buenrostro clarified that Mexican regulations do not prohibit the import of any type of corn from the United States other than that used for tortillas.
Mexico produces tortillas from non-transgenic white corn, for which it is self-sufficient, but purchases about $5 billion annually from the United States, most of which is yellow grain for livestock feed.
USA went up last week their objections to the restrictions imposed by Mexico on the import of genetically modified corn and demanded the establishment of a dispute settlement panel under the TMEC trade agreement.
Panel advertising following the failure of formal consultations to resolve deep differences between the two trading partners over GM corn.
Adriana Barrera / Reuters.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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