Mexico returns to trade avocado to Costa Rica

Published May 24, 2022

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The Costa Rican Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) has reopened its market to Mexican avocados after a seven-year ban, following a ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO). This means Mexico can now export avocados to 52 countries, including the US, Canada, and Europe. The reopening comes after Mexico successfully defended its avocado export practices at the WTO, arguing that they do not pose a plant health risk. Mexican avocado growers will now need to meet Costa Rica's import requirements, including the removal of a previous ban on avocados from countries with the avocado sunblotch viroid disease.

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EFE.- After seven years of interruption of the Mexican avocado trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) of Costa Rica reopened its market to this food, reported this Tuesday the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) of the Government of Mexico . With this, Mexico expands the options of producers, who currently send the fruit to 51 nations, including the United States, Canada, Honduras, Spain, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, China, Japan and South Korea. In a statement, Sader considered that the reopening of the Costa Rican market represents an achievement for the Government of Mexico, which, together with the industry, defended the interests of farmers before the World Trade Organization (WTO) and "demonstrated that the avocado Mexican is healthy, safe and does not represent any risk for the plant health of the countries that import it”. Read: Costa Rica finally ends the ban on importing Mexican avocados He added that the National Service ...

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