Mexico will have to review its anti-dumping duties levied on American rice, after the World Trade Organisation concluded they were imposed in breach of its rules.
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A WTO disputes panel found fault with many procedures used to assess whether the US had been dumping long grain rice in Mexico.
This will make it impossible for the duties remain in their current form: 10.18%, with some exceptions. Among other complaints, the panel said Mexico had based its anti-dumping analysis on outdated and selective data; and it declared illegal the levying of duties above that needed raise US rice prices to around production costs.
