Mexico has launched an investigation into whether pork imports have been unfairly subsidized.
The United States is the chief target and the complaints filed by Mexico’s largest hog producers points to a number of subsidies, including ones during COVID-19, the one to encourage more meat-packing competitors and subsidies for corn and soybeans.
United States President Donald Trump recently announced $12 billion in farm subsidies to compensate for the impacts from the tariff wars he started.
Mexico Business News said the farmers who called for the investigation account for 64 per cent of the nation’s pork production.
They Mexican allege that U.S. exports of pork leg and shoulder were, because of federal and state subsidies, guilty of price discrimination and illegal subsidies in 2024, and that such practices damaged the Mexican pork industry.
The U.S. exported more than 92 million pounds of pork products to Mexico last year; it was the chief export market.
Canada ought to launch its own investigations into unfair U.S. farm subsidies.
