# Opening Markets and Enforcing Trade Agreements | Iowa Corn

> The National Corn Growers Association describes its response in February 2023 when Mexico announced a ban on genetically modified white corn imports, which President Lopez Obrador then pushed forward. The article uses this episode to outline NCGA's priorities on opening export markets and enforcing trade agreements. It contains no new policy action.

- Date: 2024-05-01 · published 2024-05-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Mexico · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/30212-opening-markets-and-enforcing-trade-agreements-iowa-corn
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

This is background advocacy content with no new supply or demand change, so it has minimal direct price impact on corn.

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2021-05-04 | [Rehabilitating protection and resituating trade agreements \| IATP](https://feedsoft.ai/events/47086-rehabilitating-protection-and-resituating-trade-agreements-iatp.md) | +1.5% | -5.8% |
| CORN | 2024-04-16 | [Chairman Smith Opening Statement - Hearing with U.S. Trade Representative Tai - Ways and Means](https://feedsoft.ai/events/30704-chairman-smith-opening-statement-hearing-with-u-s-trade-representative-tai-ways.md) | -0.3% | +3.3% |
| CORN | 2019-06-16 | [Senate Agriculture Committee Trade Hearing- USMCA, China, and MFP Payments](https://feedsoft.ai/events/58573-senate-agriculture-committee-trade-hearing-usmca-china-and-mfp-payments.md) | -0.8% | -0.8% |
| CORN | 2017-02-13 | [Unsettling China, Mexico trade ideas - Agweek \| #1 source for agriculture news, farming, markets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/72356-unsettling-china-mexico-trade-ideas-agweek-1-source-for-agriculture-news.md) | -1.1% | -2.6% |
| CORN | 2022-03-22 | [Iowa Ag Secretary focused on GM corn ban during recent trade mission to Mexico - Brownfield Ag News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42276-iowa-ag-secretary-focused-on-gm-corn-ban-during-recent-trade-mission-to-mexico.md) | +2.8% | +8.6% |

## Sources

- iowacorn.org: https://www.iowacorn.org/news/ears-in-washington-may-2024/

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