Analyst: Mexico has bolstered corn case by invoking exceptions

Mexico is invoking several exceptions in response to U.S. claims that the country’s policies toward genetically engineered corn run afoul of sanitary and phytosanitary provisions in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, likely bolstering an otherwise difficult-to-win case, an analyst tells Inside U.S. Trade . The USMCA Secretariat last week released a copy of Mexico’s first written submission to the USMCA panel adjudicating the dispute, launched last year by the U.S. over a decree by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that banned...