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Source: AFP
The US Secretary of Agriculture has announced ports volition beryllium closed to the livestock commercialized astatine the confederate borderline aft Mexican cattle tested affirmative for the flesh-eating New World screwworm (NWS).
"The United States has promised to beryllium vigilant -- and aft detecting this caller NWS case, we are pausing the planned larboard reopening's to further quarantine and people this deadly pest successful Mexico," Secretary Brooke Rollins said successful a connection connected Wednesday.
President Donald Trump's medication connected May 11 announced a halt connected imports of unrecorded cattle, horses and bison implicit the confederate borderline due to the fact that of an outbreak of the screwworm fly, whose flesh-eating larvae can termination cattle.
Mexico resumed cattle exports to the United States connected Monday aft mitigation efforts, pursuing Washington's announcement that it was gradually lifting the astir two-month pause.
At the time, officials said cattle exports had resumed acknowledgment to efforts by some countries successful battling the parasitic pest.
Rollins's connection connected Wednesday said further efforts were indispensable successful circumstantial regions.
"We indispensable spot further advancement combatting NWS successful Veracruz and different adjacent Mexican states successful bid to reopen livestock ports on the Southern border," the authoritative said.
Mexico exported conscionable implicit 1 cardinal caput of cattle to the United States successful 2024, according to authoritative estimates. The commercialized was halted concisely that twelvemonth for the aforesaid reason.
The cattle standoff comes amid heightened tensions betwixt the 2 neighbors implicit the Trump administration's hardline migration argumentation and commercialized tariffs.
Source: AFP
