A caller screwworm lawsuit successful Mexico, occupation losses and the looming expiration of a herb commercialized statement were among the issues President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Thursday greeting property conference.
Here is simply a recap of the president’s July 10 mañanera.
Sheinbaum: US determination to erstwhile again halt Mexican cattle imports owed to screwworm menace ‘totally exaggerated’
On Wednesday, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins had ordered “the closure of livestock commercialized done confederate ports of introduction effectual immediately.”
In a statement, the USDA noted that Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (Senasica) reported connected Tuesday “a caller lawsuit of New World Screwworm (NWS) successful Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz successful Mexico, which is astir 160 miles northward of the existent sterile alert dispersal grid, connected the eastbound broadside of the state and 370 miles southbound of the U.S./Mexico border.”
“This caller northward detection comes astir 2 months aft bluish detections were reported successful Oaxaca and Veracruz, little than 700 miles distant from the U.S. border, which triggered the closure of our ports to Mexican cattle, bison, and horses connected May 11, 2025,” the USDA said.
The section said that portion it “announced a risk-based phased larboard re-opening strategy for cattle, bison, and equine from Mexico opening arsenic aboriginal arsenic July 7, 2025, this recently reported NWS lawsuit raises important interest astir the antecedently reported accusation shared by Mexican officials and severely compromises the outlined larboard reopening docket of 5 ports from July 7-September 15.”
“Therefore, successful bid to support American livestock and our nation’s nutrient supply, Secretary Rollins has ordered the closure of livestock commercialized done confederate ports of introduction effectual immediately,” the USDA said.
At her property league connected Thursday, Sheinbaum expressed her disagreement with the decision.
She said that upon uncovering retired astir the caller screwworm lawsuit successful Veracruz, the United States authorities took, “from our constituent of view” a “totally exaggerated determination to erstwhile again adjacent the border.”
“In immoderate case, what bash we do? Well, the method teams instantly get backmost to enactment to show that [the screwworm situation] is nether power and that everything that scientifically and practically should beryllium done is being done,” Sheinbaum said.

She said that Agriculture Minister Julio Berdegué — who didn’t be Thursday’s property league owed to unwellness — is successful “permanent contact” with Secretary Rollins, and “we anticipation that the borderline volition beryllium opened again precise soon.”
Sheinbaum said that the latest screwworm lawsuit successful Veracruz was attended to “immediately.”
“As the manager of Senasica rightly says: veterinarians arrive, determination is simply a team, determination is simply a attraction protocol; sterile flies are released truthful that this pest does not spread. So, each the protocols are being followed,” she said.
Sheinbaum seeks to allay concerns astir occupation losses
A newsman noted that Mexico mislaid much than 46,000 ceremonial assemblage jobs successful June, the 3rd consecutive period that the size of the country’s ceremonial assemblage workforce shrank.
Sheinbaum declared that “the inclination volition change,” asserting that nationalist and backstage infrastructure projects arsenic good arsenic lodging projects “will alteration employment to grow.”
She highlighted that the fig of radical successful ceremonial assemblage jobs astatine the extremity of June was higher than a twelvemonth earlier, and truthful determination has been occupation maturation implicit the past 12 months.

The president is correct, though the ceremonial assemblage workforce lone added 6,222 jobs successful the 12 months to the extremity of June, representing an yearly maturation complaint of conscionable 0.03%, according to the Mexican Social Security Institute.
Sheinbaum attributed occupation losses successful caller months to the “tariff decisions” of the United States, which has imposed duties connected imports of steel, aluminum and cars from Mexico.
“But we person Plan México, which is going to work,” she said, referring to the government’s ambitious economical initiative.
“And this year, successful particular, the inclination volition alteration owed to operation [projects], among different things,” Sheinbaum said.
“Any state successful the world, erstwhile it has a concern similar these, instantly activates construction,” she said, adding that the authorities volition physique 182,000 homes successful Mexico this year.
She said that the operation of caller houses “will assistance america a lot” successful occupation creation.
“And it indispensable beryllium said that [vehicle] exports accrued successful June. So a portion of exports that could person declined owed to tariff measures is recovering,” Sheinbaum said.
No woody yet to avert US herb tariff
A newsman noted that Mexico’s statement with the United States connected herb exports is acceptable to expire connected July 14, paving the mode for the U.S. to enforce tariffs connected Mexican tomatoes.
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced successful April its volition to “withdraw from the 2019 Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation connected Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico.”

“… With the termination of this agreement, Commerce volition institute an antidumping work bid connected July 14, 2025, resulting successful duties of 20.91% connected astir imports of tomatoes from Mexico,” the section said.
Sheinbaum said that Mexican authorities “have worked a batch with the United States government” and that “tomato associations from antithetic parts of the country, peculiarly Sinaloa, person besides been moving and person been successful contact” with U.S. authorities.
However, nary woody to avert the imposition of the tariff has yet been reached.
Sheinbaum said that betwixt 70% and 80% of tomatoes consumed successful the United States are exported from Mexico and truthful “it’s not casual to substitute them.”
“Firstly, owed to the quantity, the volume, and secondly owed to the quality,” she said.
“… They’re going to get aggravated if they nutrient elsewhere, but tomatoes from Sinaloa are hard to replace,” Sheinbaum said.
“So, beyond the decisions that the United States authorities takes, it’s not truthful casual to substitute [Mexican tomatoes], they’re going to person to proceed importing,” she said.
By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])