Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum met U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins at the National Palace after technical sessions with SADER, a meeting officials described as an excellent 40–49 minute conversation.
- Secretaries Julio Berdegué and Brooke Rollins set near‑term priorities under the August joint action plan following a review at SENASICA and its Emergency Operations Center.
- Rollins noted big advances in cooperation yet kept the U.S. import halt in place pending sufficient guarantees, a stance reinforced by recent detections near the border in Nuevo León.
- Mexico’s response features ivermectin treatments, expanded sterile‑fly releases, and coordinated surveillance with APHIS to suppress the screwworm and track animal movements.
- The suspension continues to strain producers, with industry estimating about $1.3 billion in losses through August, and no date for resuming imports was announced.