Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum met Brooke Rollins at Palacio Nacional, with U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson present, in talks described by Agriculture Secretary Julio Berdegué as an excellent 40‑minute conversation with no reopening date announced.
- Rollins held a technical session with Berdegué before the presidential meeting to review Mexico’s sanitary controls and progress under the August 15 joint action plan.
- Mexico highlighted measures including monitoring of cattle movements, surveillance of domestic and wild animals, import controls from Central America, and a sterile fly facility to suppress the pest.
- U.S. authorities remain cautious and continue to seek guarantees that screwworm risks are contained before lifting the restriction on Mexican cattle.
- The prolonged halt to exports has severely hit ranchers, with sector groups reporting about $1.3 billion in losses through August and heavy impacts in northern states such as Sonora and Chihuahua.