# Politics is foiling Monsanto’s quest to grow GMO corn in Mexico

> Monsanto has waited more than two years for Mexican approval to grow GMO corn in Sinaloa, and a court has halted pilot projects. The article says the effort may be caught up in threats by US President Trump to renegotiate NAFTA. Mexico imported $2.3 billion of US corn in 2015.

- Date: 2017-01-31 · published 2017-01-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Mexico · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/72978-politics-is-foiling-monsanto-s-quest-to-grow-gmo-corn-in-mexico
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

A possible NAFTA renegotiation puts a major US corn export market at risk, which adds downside risk to US corn prices.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2024-11-14 | [Mexico's Sheinbaum to present constitutional safeguard for non-GMO corn in coming days](https://feedsoft.ai/events/27396-mexico-s-sheinbaum-to-present-constitutional-safeguard-for-non-gmo-corn-in.md) | +0.2% | +0.4% |
| CORN | 2023-07-20 | [US Requests Mexico to Delay GM Corn Prohibition](https://feedsoft.ai/events/35021-us-requests-mexico-to-delay-gm-corn-prohibition.md) | +9.4% | -7.2% |
| CORN | 2022-09-09 | [Near breaking point on Mexico’s GM corn ban](https://feedsoft.ai/events/39582-near-breaking-point-on-mexico-s-gm-corn-ban.md) | +1.1% | -0.1% |
| 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 | 2021-06-11 | [Mexico delaying GMO corn import permits \| Feed Strategy](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46590-mexico-delaying-gmo-corn-import-permits-feed-strategy.md) | -6.1% | -4.6% |

## Sources

- qz.com: https://qz.com/899245/politics-is-foiling-monsantos-mon-quest-to-grow-gmo-corn-in-mexico

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