If this resistance grows, it is hard to imagine how people who will not eat a GMcorn chip will rush right in and have their prospective progeny genetically tweaked.
In the 1990s China was one of the first countries to approve some genetically modified cash crops, such as cotton and corn, and today China has more acreage devoted to growing GM crops than just about any other country in the world.
It is entirely possible that if there were no oil or gas exports then oil or gas prices would be lower in the US. But if there were no Boeing exports then the price of jet planes might be lower, no GM exports then the price of cars might be lower, no tortillas made of Iowa corn then corn flakes might be cheaper.