Mexican cheese imports will continue to grow

ROBERTO MORALES. THE ECONOMIST. Mexican cheese imports will maintain year-on-year growth in 2020 and 2021, projected the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA, for its acronym in English). Mexican cheese imports will maintain year-on-year growth in 2020 and 2021, projected the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA, for its acronym in English). These external purchases would grow 3.2% in the current year, to 129,000 tons, and would rise 2.3% in 2021, to 132,000 tons, according to their estimates. "In 2020, Mexico's economic and pandemic problems negatively affected its cheese imports, but not as deeply or negatively as expected," the USDA concluded in a report. In any given year, approximately 60% of Mexico's cheese imports go to food service and the remaining 40% to retail trade. In March and April, during the total shutdown of the hotel and restaurant sector, cheese imports plummeted. However, in May 2020, external purchases of cheese began to grow as e-commerce ...