date:May 17, 2012
50,000 chicken leg quarters from the Mexican market. He added that, with no other source of inexpensive dark meat available on the international marketplace, Mexico would initially buy more whole birds from the US, which currently sell at a 68% premium to chicken legs. This would lead to a 22.4% increase in poultry prices, increasing the meat consumer price index (CPI) by 7.2%, the food CPI by 1.9% and the overall CPI by 0.4%.
Although Hayes predicted that Mexico could increase domestic produc