After US trade negotiations with Mexico, Minnesota's sugar growers mostly keep their sweet deal
After US trade negotiations with Mexico, Minnesota's sugar growers mostly keep their sweet deal
- Across many industries, from automaking to food processing, the United States and Mexico enjoy a closely intertwined, friendly trade relationship, thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
- Across many industries, from automaking to food processing, the United States and Mexico enjoy a closely intertwined, friendly trade relationship, thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
When
it comes to the sugar trade under NAFTA, though, ties between the U.S.
and Mexico are anything but sweet. For years, the U.S. sugar industry
has worked hard to limit how much sugar Mexico, the world’s
sixth-largest sugar producer, can send to the north. Mexico, constantly
looking for places to sell excess product, has sought ways around
existing trade law to get its cane sugar sold on the U.S. market.
President
Donald Trump has vowed to protect U.S. industries, and opened up
renegotiation of NAFTA with tough talk on Canadian and Mexican trade
practices. Observers pointed to sugar as an especially contentious area
where trade talks could go sour.