date:Dec 16, 2013
Mexico will re-impose tariffs on white corn imports eliminated in 2008 in the midst of a world food crisis, as well as well as on sorghum, the Secretary of Agriculture said on Friday.
Imports of white corn will have a 20 percent tariff, well below the 194 percent rate charged before 2008.
A 15 percent levy will be applied to sorghum, which will favor producers located in Mexico's Northeast and central regions.
The sorghum tariff was removed in 2012.
Imports of yellow corn, which reach about