Mexico: Government of Mexico Announces 2023 Quota for Glyphosate Imports

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Mexico: Government of Mexico Announces 2023 Quota for Glyphosate Imports

Note: a corrected version of this report was released on April 10, 2023.  Please click here to access that corrected version.  

On March 19, 2023, Mexico’s Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS) announced the annual import quota for two types of the agrochemical glyphosate. The 2023 quota is set at 4,131 tons of formulated glyphosate and 314 tons of technical glyphosate. The glyphosate import quota was implemented in 2021 under the 2020 Corn Decree and reaffirmed in the revised 2023 Corn Decree. This report provides an unofficial translation of the COFEPRIS press release announcing the 2023 glyphosate import quota.

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