Cattle call.An expected Mexican Mexican named after or originating in Mexico. Mexican axolotl see ambystomamexicanum. Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum decision to allow U.S. beef back in Mexico could help economies on both sides of the border. A third of U.S. beef exports, worth US$566 million a year, ends up in Mexico. Ever since the December import freeze, after mad-cow disease was discovered in Washington state, meat prices shot up 40% in Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi . "Right now there is no meat--it ran out 10 days ago and we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. when we are going to buy more," says Claudia Arciniega, manager of a Tony Rome's restaurant in Mexico City. "The [price] hike has hurt our economy and we have lost a lot of customers." Mexico, the second-largest importer of U.S. beef after Japan, is one of 30 nations that had suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. the beef trade with the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Mexican cattle ranchers insist the government ban is good for public health, not just their own sales. In any case, ranchers say, a short-term price hike doesn't help Mexican producers that much. "For a rancher to see a drastic change in earnings, he wouldn't see it in two months," says Manuel Garda Garza, president of the Union Ganadera Regional de Nuevo Leon cattle ranchers association. "The U.S. beef import suspension would have to last for two years." |
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