At the same time U.S. sugar growers launched a trade challenge against sugar imported from Mexico, apple growers in Mexico say they are being put out of business by U.S. apples. Growers attempted to get the government to cut off the imports and a senator accused the United States of dumping apples on Mexico, says Public Radio International in a story produced in partnership with FERN, the Food and Environment Reporting Network.
“Mexican growers say they aren’t against more trade, but they want more trade oversight. They’re asking the government to block US imports around harvest time to give them more of a chance to sell their apples. But US government officials say that would violate the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA,” says PRI.