Mexico

Canada-Mexico Partnership (CMP)


CCA participated in the CMP meetings in Cuernavaca, Mexico, March 23 - 24. The CMP is a collaborative forum for industries, businesses and other organizations from Canada and Mexico. The CMP included industry chaired working groups on cattle/beef and hog/pork issues as well as a broad range of other agriculture and non-agriculture areas.

The cattle/beef and hog/pork groups collaborated to approve a joint statement on U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling (mCOOL) that calls for the Canadian and Mexican governments to pursue a World Trade Organization challenge against the U.S. and for the cattle and hog industries of the two countries to continue working together in their common opposition to mCOOL.

Discussions to re-establish imports to Mexico of over-30-month (OTM) Canadian beef continue to reach an impasse. Mexico continues to stonewall this issue - with COFEPRIS, Mexico’s counterpart to Health Canada, as the main obstacle. Their main concern is the belief that Canadian OTM beef presents a health risk to Mexican consumers.