After President Trump’s many threats against them, Mexico is ready to retaliate. Mexico is one of the top buyers of the U.S.’s corn. Mexican Senator Armando Rios Piter says he will introduce a bill where Mexico will buy corn from Brazil and Argentina instead of the United States. Apparently, this gesture is a “good way to tell them that this hostile relationship has consequences, hope that it changes” (Piter).
America produces more corn than any other country in the world. Corn is a staple of the average American’s diet, as well as the average Mexican’s. However, if Mexico does stop buying America’s corn, there will be extremely bad effects on the rest of the agrarian economy. In 2015, “American farmers sent $2.4 billion USD of corn to Mexico” (CNN). If Mexico’s corn bill ends up happening, the economy will lose over $2.4 billion USD in profit. That’s a lot of money, and without that amount of profit, America’s agriculture will be greatly affected. I think that this is going to have a very bad effect on our agrarian economy, but more importantly is that we started this mess. It was our President who threatened Mexico, and now they are threatening us in return. I hope for the sake of both our countries that the “corn bill” doesn’t happen, and that our relationship with Mexico will improve. Source: http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/13/news/economy/mexico-trump-us-corn/index.html
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Angela Wang
2/15/2017 12:17:29 pm
Nice job! Very informative, interesting to know! :)
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