US makes official embargo against Mexican shrimp; can no longer be exported

Published 2021년 5월 1일

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Mexico is facing an embargo from exporting wild shrimp to the United States, effective from April 30, due to inspection findings of serious irregularities in the use of Sea Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This embargo is expected to cost Mexico around $257 million in annual revenue. The article suggests that only shrimp harvested from aquaculture can enter the US, and countries like Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama are currently authorized to export wild shrimp due to their sea turtle protection programs.

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ERNESTO MÉNDEZ. EXCELLENT. Mexico is prevented from exporting wild shrimp to the United States, which annually generates foreign exchange for our country of around 257 million dollars. The embargo against Mexican shrimp, which takes effect this Friday, April 30, was announced through the Federal Register in public notice number 11419 by the State Department. In this way, Mexico is prevented from exporting wild shrimp to United States territory, which annually generates foreign exchange for our country of around 257 million dollars. The withdrawal of certification to Mexican shrimp is the result of four inspection visits carried out in two years by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States (NOAA), to Campeche, Mazatlán, Puerto Chiapas, Puerto Juárez, Puerto Peñasco, Salina Cruz , San Blas and Tampico, where he found serious irregularities in the use of TEDs. Since the end of 2018, Conapesca disappeared the special group of federal officials that ...

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