Canada reaches deal to export potatoes to Mexico, formerly an exclusive privilege of the US

Mexico and Canada person reached an statement to let the export of caller Canadian potatoes to the Mexican market.

The opening of the marketplace volition let Canadian producers to export high-quality potatoes for depletion oregon processing successful Mexico.

Speaking to CBC TV, Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agrifood Heath MacDonald called it “a precise large deal,” adding that “it is important to the Canadian murphy manufacture crossed the country.”

The agreement, which had been successful the works for astir 3 years, volition springiness Canada entree to a marketplace that had been dominated by the United States arsenic the sole supplier of potatoes to Mexico for the past 20 years.

“All we asked arsenic Canadians is to person the aforesaid entree arsenic the U.S. has, with 1 caveat — ensuring that we had entree to the seaway,” MacDonald said, explaining that Canada wants to beryllium capable to vessel its potatoes some by onshore and by sea.

Mexico is expected to nonstop Agrifood Health, Safety and Quality agents to Canada successful June to transportation retired phytosanitary inspections earlier the archetypal shipment is authorized. 

Mexico and Canada person been moving to fortify bilateral commercialized up of the ceremonial reappraisal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada commercialized agreement, which gets underway this week. 

MacDonald led commercialized missions to Mexico successful October 2025 and again past month, moving to physique a person-to-person narration with his Mexican interlocutors, Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard and Agriculture Minister Julio Berdegué.

The February commercialized mission, Canada’s largest to Mexico successful decades, featured 390 delegates and implicit 1,700 concern meetings. Mexico volition marque a reciprocal commercialized ngo to Canada successful May, dubbed the Mexico-Canada Trade Mission 2026.

The effort — portion of a caller bilateral enactment plan agreed to successful February — aims to fortify regulatory practice and facilitate commercialized betwixt the 2 nations.

Mexico and Canada haven’t wasted immoderate clip creating caller bilateral commercialized avenues successful the lead-up to a contentious USMCA reappraisal with the United States. After receiving the largest-ever Canadian commercialized ngo successful February, Mexico volition marque a reciprocal ngo to Canada successful May, dubbed the Mexico-Canada Trade Mission 2026. (gob.mx)

During the presumption of Trade Mission 2026 successful Mexico City past week, Cameron Mackay, Canada’s ambassador to Mexico, emphasized the “value of productive integration, characterized by binational proviso chains successful technologically analyzable sectors specified arsenic automobiles and aircraft, arsenic good arsenic agrifood products.”

Bilateral commercialized exceeds US $100 billion, of which US $60 cardinal corresponds to Canadian concern and much than US $40 cardinal to yearly commercialized successful goods. Potatoes are the fifth-largest harvest successful Canada, generating revenues of US $2.1 cardinal successful 2024.

With reports from CBC, Infobae and CBN News