Overview

• Reopening will begin at Douglas, Arizona on July 7 and extend through mid-September across five southern border ports under a risk-based schedule.
• USDA will evaluate each port’s performance against real-time screwworm data before authorizing subsequent reopenings.
• Import rules restrict cattle and bison to those from Sonora or Chihuahua or treated under protocol, while equines face a mandatory seven-day quarantine at entry ports.
• Binational teams have conducted weekly sterile-fly releases exceeding 100 million insects and strengthened surveillance efforts with Mexican counterparts.
• Mexico has commenced renovation of its Metapa fly-production plant and the U.S. is advancing a Texas sterile-fly facility to sustain eradication barriers.