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Can the Biden Administration challenge Mexico’s decision to ban glyphosate weedkiller and GMO corn?
Story Date: 5/20/2021
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Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 5/19/21
Mexico may be one of the U.S.’s top agricultural trading partners, but this relationship has plenty of problems. Consider the decree that Mexico’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, issued on December 30, 2020, banning genetically engineered corn and glyphosate, a popular herbicide. It further undermines agricultural trade between the two nations. This action occurred despite the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) going into force on July 1, 2020 (not that it wouldn’t have been a problem before). The new agreement was supposed to modernize its predecessor...
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