The U.S. Department of Agriculture has finalized a regulation allowing Mexican states to export pork to the United States. The Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service determined Mexico has their Classical Swine Fever problem under control. Dave Warner with the National Pork Producers Council says the U.S. needs to play by the same trading rules as our trading partners do.
He says it’s important to maintain good trading relations with Mexico as it represents the number two value market for U.S. pork and the number one volume market.
Warner says all trading partners should adhere to science based rules.
Classical Swine Fever is a highly contagious viral disease in pigs that was eradicated in the U.S. in the late 1970s. USDA’s APHIS has determined the risk of disease from pork exports from Mexico is negligible.
