US popcorn exports in doubt, warns head of Mexican cinema chain

[umbertino]

Head of the country’s largest cinema chain says Donald Trump’s impending free trade renegotiations may force him to buy in from Argentina

Catherine Shoard

Monday 6 February 2017 14.23 GMT

Under threat … popcorn.

Photograph: Debbi Smirnoff/Getty Images

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/06/us-popcorn-exports-mexican-cinema-free-trade-renegotiations

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

Yuh... cuz The Great American Farmer has no earthly idea how to grow corn.

Wow....

[8th ID]

WOW.... “We import all of our corn for movie theatres from the US thanks to the fact that there’s free trade,” Ramirez told Bloomberg. “If that wasn’t the case – if we go to pre-Nafta tariff levels – then it would be cheaper to bring it from Argentina.”

Well, I say go to Argentina for your popcorn. You will be back here for it soon. Did anyone else see prices go down for us when NAFTA started? I sure don't remember seeing any.

[divemaster5734]

That was such a pathetically weak statement, it's a wonder no one b1tch slapped him for it.

Declaring the couple hundred thousand worth of corn they get from us, at a discount, will offset the billions they take from us.

It's almost as ignorant as calling Trump a Nazi.

Almost..

[patrickgold]

Well this was a waste of time!!! Popcorn, really

[Muleslayer]

Oh dear no overpricedimported popcorn?

where's my brown paper bag?