NCGA Sounding Alarms on WSJ

November 10, 2022

NCGA is continuing efforts to raise the possible Mexico trade war issue with decision-makers and The Office of the United States Trade Representative. Here is a story that was just published in the Wall Street Journal outlining the impact that would occur should President Andrés Manuel López Obrador move forward with his promise to implement a decree that would ban biotech corn in early 2024.

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