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US GOVERNMENT IMPOSES EMBARGO ON CATTLE FROM DURANGO, CHIAPAS STATES BECAUSE OF PRESENCE OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS.

SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico, June, 2005

The US government has imposed an embargo on imports of live cattle and other livestock from Durango and Chiapas states because of an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in some areas of the two states. The USDA has also imposed limited restrictions on cattle from 15 other Mexican states, requiring producers from certain regions to submit paperwork proving that cattle are free of TB.

The US restrictions, announced in late May, will remain in place indefinitely. To resume exports to the US, livestock producers in the two states will have to take a series of steps, from quarantining infected and at-risk animals to comprehensive testing, said the US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), a division of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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