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These changes have had uneven effects on Mexican agriculture. [2] Until the late 1990s, Mexico was a net exporter of agricultural products, but today it is a net importer, mostly from the United States. [30] With the need to compete with imported grains and less direct support from the government, the agricultural sector entered a crisis.
The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.
Researchers at a top Mexican agricultural university this week showed the progress they had made in producing more non-GM yellow corn seeds to help replace imported grain from the United States ...
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico would enact tariffs and non-tariff economic retaliation against the United States. Both Canada and Mexico have said that Trump's tariffs would violate the United States–Mexico–Canada free trade agreement ratified by the three countries in 2020 under Trump's first presidency. Economists have ...
Mexico is the United States' largest trading partner, representing over 15% of total trade. ... The U.S. is also heavily reliant on Mexican agricultural products and commodities like sugar, flour ...
The White House confirmed that President Donald Trump will impose a 25% tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada — two of the largest suppliers of agricultural products to the US — on February 1.
When NAFTA was initially passed, Mexican emigration to the United States surged, though it is unclear whether the Act itself was the direct causal factor in this surge. [7] However, part of this surge can be attributed to the continued economic stagnation in Mexico and the reliance of United States agriculture on low-wage migrant workers. [12]
In 1990 the United States enacted the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, which protected United States sugar producers at all-time high through price support that was given to farmers through loans, domestic market control, and tariff-rate quotas established to minimize sugar imported to the United States. [5]