Given the risk that the current US government will decree a blockade on the products that Guerrero currently exports, producers have started negotiations with other countries, such as China and the Netherlands.
The Secretary of Public Works and Economic Development in the state, Alvaro Burgos Barrera, stated that the producers from Guerrero currently exported processed mango products as well as products derived from coconut. He also said they hadn't had any problem selling their products to the United States so far, and that if Donald Trump decided to put obstacles to their products, they would seek to export them to China and the Netherlands, where there is a lot of demand for mezcal.
The government official said producers who feared a possible blockade by the US government were negotiating with other countries, including Asian countries, and that the government was supporting these entrepreneurs through the Pro Mexico program.
The measure to support producers from Guerrero was taken after the US President, Donald Trump, announced he would renegotiate the Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and because of the possibility that the country will abandon the bilateral trade treaty. "That's why we are working to have a business relationship with the Asian countries," he said.
He stated that they hadn't had any problems exporting products derived from mango and coconut so far, unlike the recent the rejection of a shipment of avocados from the state of Jalisco. Furthermore, rural producers have started exporting cucumbers and tomatoes from the Pilcaya community.
Source: informador.com.mx