# Movement to ban GMO corn imports gains support in Mexico  |  The Organic & Non-GMO Report

> Mexican activists are pushing to ban GMO corn imports, which Mexico buys about 16 million tons of each year, mostly from the US. A 2020 presidential decree seeks to bar GMO corn from human consumption by 2024, and the Supreme Court has affirmed a ban on growing it.

- Date: 2022-03-29 · published 2022-03-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Mexico · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/42274-movement-to-ban-gmo-corn-imports-gains-support-in-mexico-the-organic-and-non
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

A push to restrict GMO corn imports would threaten US corn exports to Mexico, which are worth about $2.7 billion a year. For now it is advocacy with no enacted import restriction, so the price effect is modest.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2020-10-07 | [Mexico plans to ban GM corn imports, stirring potential conflict with U.S. - The Organic & Non-GMO Report](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50621-mexico-plans-to-ban-gm-corn-imports-stirring-potential-conflict-with-u-s-the.md) | +2.0% | +6.5% |
| CORN | 2021-06-10 | [Court throws out legal challenge to Mexico’s GMO corn ban as U.S. suppliers say they can supply non-GMO corn - The Organic & Non-GMO Report](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46588-court-throws-out-legal-challenge-to-mexico-s-gmo-corn-ban-as-u-s-suppliers-say.md) | -1.8% | -2.6% |
| CORN | 2021-01-05 | [Mexico bans GMO corn, plans to phase out imports \| Feed Strategy](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49126-mexico-bans-gmo-corn-plans-to-phase-out-imports-feed-strategy.md) | +3.1% | +14.6% |
| CORN | 2022-01-31 | [Ban on GMO corn in Mexico farm lobby blasts; Organic farmers welcome it](https://feedsoft.ai/events/43122-ban-on-gmo-corn-in-mexico-farm-lobby-blasts-organic-farmers-welcome-it.md) | +0.6% | +6.9% |
| CORN | 2021-01-18 | [Mexico GMO corn ban includes animal feed imports \| Feed Strategy](https://feedsoft.ai/events/49127-mexico-gmo-corn-ban-includes-animal-feed-imports-feed-strategy.md) | -2.6% | +3.7% |

## Sources

- non-gmoreport.com: https://non-gmoreport.com/movement-to-ban-gmo-corn-imports-gains-support-in-mexico/

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