US EditionUS cattle ban to last 15 days, president of Mexico says
- The Trump administration imposed a 15-day ban on bringing live Mexican cattle, bison, and horses into the United States following the discovery of a screwworm outbreak in shipments at the end of April 2024.
- The suspension followed warnings that Mexico needed to control the screwworm larva, which invades warm-blooded animals and causes serious tissue damage and lesions.
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized the decision as unfair, stressing Mexico’s ongoing cooperation with U.S. Authorities and efforts to end the outbreak promptly.
- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins emphasized on social media that the livestock sector needed three decades to fully bounce back from a previous screwworm outbreak, underscoring the seriousness of the current threat.
- The temporary ban pushed Mexico to reinforce pest control while hopes remain to lift restrictions soon without causing major economic losses.
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It is a political issue to close the U.S. border on Mexican cattle
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo expressed her disagreement with the “unfair” decision of the United States to close its border for 15 days on exports of standing cattle from Mexico, due to the health crisis caused by the expansion of the sweeping worm.
US cattle ban to last 15 days, president of Mexico says
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The president of Mexico says she expects U.S. cattle imports ban on her country to last 15 days or less as both nations coordinate containment of a screwworm infestation south of the border. “We are not in agreement with this measure. The government of Mexico has been working across the board since we received the alert about the screwworm," President Claudia Sheinbaum said at her Monday news conference on social…
Sheinbaum, before the U.S. decision to once again suspend the importation of cattle: “Mexico is nobody’s piñata”
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has raised the tone of the claim to the drastic unilateral decisions that the United States has taken since Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January, and that seriously affect the Latin American country. This time the dispute has been given by the surprise announcement of the US Secretariat of Agriculture to suspend for two weeks the land import of cattle from Mexico, following the plague of…
Mexico says U.S. suspension of beef imports because of screwworm is unfair
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday described as "unfair" the decision by the Trump administration to suspend imports of Mexican beef cattle for 15 days due to the detection of screwworm in shipments.
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