The U.S. government has suspended imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat.
The association did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ban, which hits an industry with almost $3 billion in annual exports. However, avocados for this year's Super Bowl had already been exported in the weeks prior to the event.
The inspectors work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services. In August 2019, a U.S. Department of Agriculture team of inspectors was “directly threatened” in Ziracuaretiro, a town just west of Uruapan. While the agency didn’t specify what happened, local authorities say a gang robbed the truck the inspectors were traveling in at gunpoint.
On September 30, 2020, a Mexican employee of APHIS was killed near the northern border city of Tijuana. On Thursday, the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office filed an environmental complaint against Mexico for failing to stop illegal fishing to protect the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise.
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