Mexican government: U.S. sugar export quota to be ‘unjustifiably reduced’

Adjustments in the way the U.S. calculates its future sugar needs could lead to an unfair reduction of Mexico’s export quota, a senior Mexican official charged in correspondence published by the Commerce Department this week, though the U.S. insists the changes were minor. “[T]here is concern that the quota allocated to Mexico may be unjustifiably reduced,” Luis Rosendo Gutiérrez Romano, Mexico’s new deputy secretary for international trade, wrote in an Oct. 11 letter to U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for...