LatinNews Daily - 03 December 2025

*Mexico’s agriculture ministry (Sader) has announced that it is expanding efforts to control the movement of livestock and contain the spread of the New World Screwworm (NWS). Sader expanded the powers of the national animal health emergency mechanism (Dinesa), which was published in July 2024 as a preventive measure, in order to strengthen control and eradication efforts against the NWS, which prompted the US to close the border to Mexican livestock imports in May. The measures include the obligatory notification of cases of NWS to the national service for agrifood health, safety, and quality (Senasica), compliance with legal provisions when moving cattle and other livestock including the obligatory presentation of an animal sanitary transport certificate, treatment of livestock prior to transportation, and a ban on transporting any animals that are unable to stand, ill, or injured. According to Mexico-based agrifood consultancy Grupo Consultor de Mercados Agrícolas (GCMA), the US suspension of Mexican livestock imports resulted in a 79.7% fall in livestock exports year-on-year between January and October 2025, with 238,000 head of cattle moved in the period, compared to 1.17m in 2024.

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