US potato growers eye expanding sales to entire Mexican market

六月 12, 2012
US potato growers hope that this could be the year they are allowed to ship fresh spuds into all of Mexico, which would be a $120 million opportunity. The domestic spud industry, with help from members of Congress, is using a pending Asia-Pacific trade agreement as leverage to try to accomplish that.
A market access agreement signed by the two nations in 2003 allowed for the shipment of fresh U.S. potatoes within a 26-kilometer zone near the border. It called for increasing access to the five northern Mexico states the next year and for Mexico to consider granting full access by 2005.
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