Mexico Pork-Offal Ban Costs U.S. Exporters $7M Weekly

Mexico's month-long closure to US pork awful after a pseudo-rabies detection in Iowa has cost exporters about $7 million per week, according to the US Meat Export Federation. Some shipments have resumed, but restrictions on product from Iowa and Texas remain, and new source verification rules are complicating exports from other states. USMEF says the limited supply is frustrating US exporters, as well as Mexican retailers, restaurants, and consumers who rely on US pork awful. USMEF trade manager Rigoberto Trevino.

“Most of the times when you talk about barrier to meats, the answer is going to be always tacos. So, carnitas are very important in Mexico, for example, pork snout, pork ears, pork stomach, etc.”

Trevino points out that the cost for some awful products has doubled.

“They are very frustrated, not only the Mexican customers, also the American exporters, because they want to get the product into Mexico, and the prices are getting really high. And, for example, just giving an example, pork uterus, the domestic supply is not enough in Mexico, so they have to import product from the US. They cannot import product from the US right now, so the prices can be double for this kind of cuts.”

USMEF’s, Rigoberto Trevino.