In return, it requested access to CA of its dairy products, cars, avocado, steel and white corn.

Guatemalan Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, Raul Trejo, told Sigloxxi.com, "We must be aware that in negotiations you not always getting what you ask for; sometimes you need to yield in some areas. In the present case if we accept the inclusion of our best products, we must yield with some other products... although nothing has been negotiated yet."

Source: sigloxxi.com

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