Mexico Potato Export Restrictions Worth Initiating Dispute, Senators Say
Idaho's two senators and Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., have asked the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Agriculture Department to consider initiating a dispute with Mexico over the restriction on fresh potatoes from the U.S. The letter, sent…
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Aug. 18, notes that Mexico had agreed to allow fresh potatoes to be sold beyond a 16-mile U.S.-Mexico border zone (see 14052305), but that Mexican potato interests sued to stop the liberalization. That case is still pending. A House Republican from Colorado asked the administration last year to push Mexico on this issue (see 1909270061).