# MAIZALL Mission To Mexico Focuses Efforts On Trade, Food Security Issues - U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council

> The MAIZALL delegation visited Mexico last week to meet government and industry stakeholders on the 2020 decree banning GM corn for human consumption by 2024. The group raised concerns about the lack of new GM event authorizations since 2018 and said Mexico's import needs could be hard to meet.

- Date: 2022-08-25 · published 2022-08-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Mexico · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/40010-maizall-mission-to-mexico-focuses-efforts-on-trade-food-security-issues-u-s
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Risk to Mexico's large GM corn import program is a bearish factor for US and South American corn exports if the ban is enforced.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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% |
| CORN | 2017-03-23 | [Market Perspectives March 23, 2017 - Page 7 of 10 - U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71850-market-perspectives-march-23-2017-page-7-of-10-u-s-grains-and-bioproducts.md) | +0.2% | -0.3% |
| CORN | 2022-08-19 | [MAIZALL Mission to Mexico – MAIZALL](https://feedsoft.ai/events/40007-maizall-mission-to-mexico-maizall.md) | -0.8% | +0.2% |
| CORN | 2022-10-28 | [BIO: Mexico's Biotech Corn Ban Will Cause Food Security Crisis \| BIO](https://feedsoft.ai/events/39112-bio-mexico-s-biotech-corn-ban-will-cause-food-security-crisis-bio.md) | -2.5% | -2.0% |
| CORN | 2022-10-24 | [Calls Increase for U.S. Trade Representative to Act on Mexico’s Pending Decree on Corn Imports](https://feedsoft.ai/events/39108-calls-increase-for-u-s-trade-representative-to-act-on-mexico-s-pending-decree.md) | -1.1% | -1.4% |

## Sources

- grains.org: https://grains.org/maizall-mission-to-mexico-focuses-efforts-on-trade-food-security-issues/

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