Class-Action Lawsuit in the Corn Sector Wins Judgment Against the Ministry of Economy for Ignoring a Request

After two years without a response from the Ministry of Economy, the federal court has ordered it to respond to the Corn Collective’s request to activate USMCA mechanisms against the United States regarding agricultural biotechnology.

In a new ruling in favor of the Collective, the judicial authority determined that the Secretariat failed to comply with the constitutional standard of responding to the right of petition by not issuing a clear, timely and duly substantiated response to the request to countersue the US for the impairment of food sovereignty and biodiversity in Mexico.

In the public session of January 21, 2026, the Acting Secretary of Magistrate, María Alejandra Suárez Morales, of the Second Collegiate Court in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit, pointed out that the Ministry of Economy violated the constitutional right of petition.

The authority is obliged to explain in detail the reasons why it considers our request appropriate or inappropriate, and why the Collective’s arguments are or are not applicable to the context of the case and fit within the hypothesis to initiate the procedures proposed by the Collective.