# Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment, weather and obituaries - US seeks consultation with Mexico over GMO corn restrictions

> The US has asked for consultations with Mexico over new Mexican rules that drop the date for substituting imports of genetically modified feed corn. The rules keep a vague commitment to 'gradual substitution' with no timeline and ban GM corn for direct human consumption. Mexico buys about $3 billion of US corn a year.

- Date: 2019-03-06 · published 2019-03-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Mexico · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/60062-boston-herald-boston-news-sports-politics-opinion-entertainment-weather-and
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Mexico is the largest buyer of US corn, and open-ended restrictions raise the risk of lost export demand, which is bearish for US corn prices.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2019-03-06 | [Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment, weather and obituaries - Mexican trade dispute may dramatically impact U.S. corn growers](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60063-boston-herald-boston-news-sports-politics-opinion-entertainment-weather-and.md) | -1.7% | -1.5% |
| CORN | 2019-03-06 | [Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment, weather and obituaries - US farmers sound alarm on single-most catastrophic thing headed for corn crops](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60065-boston-herald-boston-news-sports-politics-opinion-entertainment-weather-and.md) | -1.7% | -1.5% |
| CORN | 2024-11-27 | [New scientific analyses underpin Mexico’s restrictions on GM corn and glyphosate due to health risks — Timothy A. Wise](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27399-new-scientific-analyses-underpin-mexico-s-restrictions-on-gm-corn-and.md) | -0.1% | +6.2% |
| CORN | 2023-06-02 | [Mexico to fight US dispute over GM corn after formal consultations fail \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/35478-mexico-to-fight-us-dispute-over-gm-corn-after-formal-consultations-fail-reuters.md) | -1.5% | -3.9% |
| CORN | 2017-02-19 | [U.S. Corn Exports to Mexico: Will Policy Rhetoric Turn into Concrete Action? - Farm Policy News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/72530-u-s-corn-exports-to-mexico-will-policy-rhetoric-turn-into-concrete-action-farm.md) | +0.3% | +0.9% |

## Sources

- markets.bostonherald.com: http://markets.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/news/read/43204780/us_seeks_consultation_with_mexico_over_gmo_corn_restrictions

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