USDA Again Shuts Southern Border to Livestock Trade
USDA announced it will again close the southern border to livestock trade “effective immediately,” after another detection of New World Screwworm in Mexico, it said in a July 9 news release. The agency had previously said it would reopen southern…
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border ports to cattle, bison and horse imports in phases, with the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry the first to reopen July 7. However, the newly reported New World Screwworm case “raises significant concern about the previously reported information shared by Mexican officials and severely compromises the outlined port reopening schedule of five ports from July 7-September 15,” USDA said in the release.