In the past 10 years alone, they increased from $12.7 billion to $18.6 billion, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. In fact, Mexico consumes an enormous amount of American agricultural products. Today, the United States supplies three-quarters of Mexico’s agri-food imports, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Earlier this year, in the midst of uncertainty around NAFTA negotiations, Mexico shocked American farmers by dramatically increasing its imports of corn from Brazil. Mexico is the United States’ largest export market for pork; it purchased $1.5 billion of American pork last year.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2018 21:47 UTC