Mexico is one of the top buyers of American corn in the world today. And Mexican senator Armando Rios Piter, who leads a congressional committee on foreign relations, says he will introduce a bill this week where Mexico will buy corn from Brazil and Argentina instead of the United States.
It's one of the first signs of potential concrete action from Mexico in response to President Trump's threats against the country.
"I'm going to send a bill for the corn that we are buying in the Midwest and...change to Brazil or Argentina," Rios Piter, 43, told told CNN's Leyla Santiago on Sunday at an anti-Trump protest in Mexico City.
He added: It's a "good way to tell them that this hostile relationship has consequences, hope that it changes."
Logan Allen
Based Mexico, buy our corn pls,
Daniel Hughes
I love corn, but I'm not a Mexican. What should I do?
Liam Torres
Buy our corn
Ryan Adams
PLEASE, buy our corn.
Chase Cook
Buy a sombrero then you are officially Mexican
Carson Morgan
Good. More corn for me.
Ethan Ward
You should also replace vodka with tequila
No, buy our corn
David Thompson
The corn you grow is not for human consumption though
Christian Wilson
PLEASE, buy MERCOSUL corn.
Andrew Foster
Now they want our help eh Fuck mexico
Leo Wilson
It's not help. It's more money for you or Argentina or both.
Brayden Gutierrez
I hope they all burn
Brody Hughes
money for us it is
Levi Harris
OUR corn is better.
Robert Reyes
but you are rude. Mexicans like polite people. FACT!
Matthew Watson
We will be GENTLE, I swear.
Matthew White
Do not quarrel please. I'll buy all your corn.
Daniel Allen
EL PORFIRIATO SOON, MUCHACHOS
Matthew Long
“I warn you: The openness for grain and agricultural products for Brazil will eat the market that you have today in Mexico,” said Ildefonso Guajardo, Mexico’s economy secretary in a meeting this week with Stephen Bannon, Peter Navarro, and Jared Kushner, all Trump’s top aides, according to the Mexican press.
Experts say such a bill would be very costly to U.S. farmers.
Corn is the biggest of the US’s $17.7bn in agricultural exports to Mexico, a value that has risen fivefold since the countries signed the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Charles Ross
>$17.7bn Deal! Thanks Mr. Orange.
Ayden Lee
Our deal
Aaron Ortiz
muh corn
Jayden Lewis
>Canelo >too much of a pussy to fight GGG >has to fight pothead disappointment to his father Chavez jr.
Eli Nguyen
Canelo would fuck GGG up. You're dumb as hell if you think Canelo is the one holding back the fight and not Oscar.
Caleb Richardson
>posting a gif of a fight he had with a literal has been
Anyways how do I achieve canelo mode?
William Scott
I knew Trump wouldn't be bad for us. Didn't expect it to create new business deals tho
Juan Powell
Tortillas
Isaac Diaz
>literal has been Why do you attempt to talk about something you know jack shit about?
Daniel Peterson
>implying Cotto isn't a had been
Robert Allen
Yes, thats exactly what I was implying. I also said you don't know shit about boxing.
Julian Jones
Argentina and Brazil are not allowed to sell stuff by themselves because of Mercosur, if Mexico wants to make new trade deals they have to present an idea to Mercosur and then they'll be buying Mercosur corn.
Jaxson Martin
That's implied. Argentina and Brazil represent something like what? 80% of the agro output of the block? Besides, would Paraguay and Uruguay oppose it for some reason?
