Overview

• Mexico and the United States presented a binational Plan of Action that introduces regionalization, certified corrals, trap‑based monitoring and a maritime import protocol for safer cattle movements.
• Both governments formalized U.S. contributions for a sterile‑fly facility in Metapa de Domínguez, Chiapas, targeting about 100 million flies per week and full operation in the first half of 2026.
• The National Agricultural Council says the plan should help restore trade after an estimated $1.3 billion in losses tied to the U.S. import halt, and it cites a proposed U.S. plant in Texas that could produce roughly 300 million sterile flies weekly.
• The farmworkers’ union UNTA urged President Claudia Sheinbaum to suspend cattle imports from Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala and to close the southern border, alleging illegal trafficking of 800,000 head and pointing to a recent shipment through Mazatlán.
• SENASICA reports 2,738 bovine cases as of July 15 concentrated in southern states, while Jalisco remains free of detections, has formed a reaction committee, deployed trained detection dogs and certified its first handling corral.