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The US government has suspended operations in Mexico’s largest avocado-producing region. With export inspections halted, concerns are rising over supply disruptions and price increases.<\/p>\n
According to Bloomberg and CNN on the 7th, the US Embassy and consulates in Mexico suspended all US government operations in the state of Michoacan. They cited a threat to US interests as the reason but did not specify the nature of the threat.<\/p>\n
Avocado exports have been immediately blocked. Michoacan Governor Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla explained that the measure halts the work of US Department of Agriculture staff who inspect avocados bound for the US market. The Association of Avocado Producers, Packers and Exporters of Mexico (APEAM) said that shipment approvals were not being issued, leaving packing companies to make their own decisions on harvesting and operations. Currently, only volumes submitted on the 4th can be processed, with USDA staff present.<\/p>\n
The Mexican government immediately deployed troops. On the 6th, it sent an additional 1,500 soldiers to Michoacan. State public security authorities also met with USDA officials to discuss ways to strengthen security for US employees. Governor Ramirez Bedolla said they were cooperating to resolve concerns and normalize operations quickly.<\/p>\n
Cartel ‘Protection Fees’ in the Background<\/p>\n
The measure came as Michoacan security authorities were cracking down on extortion crimes. According to a 2024 report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, local criminal organizations have regularly extorted protection fees from avocado-growing farms. The region is also an area where the Jalisco cartel and local organizations are engaged in turf wars.<\/p>\n
The impact on the market is significant. Mexico is the world’s largest avocado producer and exporter, and the US relies on it for most of its imports. According to USDA data, the US imported 1.1 million tons of avocados from Mexico last year.<\/p>\n
That accounts for more than 80% of total imports and amounts to more than $3.2 billion (about 4.534 trillion won) in value. Of that, Michoacan accounts for 75% to 80% of Mexico’s production. The avocado industry in the region creates more than 200,000 jobs.<\/p>\n
The situation is not entirely blocked. The US can also import avocados from Peru and its own state of California, and Jalisco, Mexico’s second-largest producing state, can also export to the US. David Magana, an analyst at Rabobank, forecast that if the measure is temporary, alternative supply sources would to some extent prevent shortages and price increases.<\/p>\n
There is precedent. In 2024, two American avocado inspectors were assaulted and detained at a police checkpoint, and the US blocked imports from Michoacan for more than a week. According to market analysis firm RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness, Mexican producers suffered losses of tens of millions of dollars at the time, and the price of a box of avocados in the US at one point jumped 40%. APEAM said it was in talks with authorities to resolve security issues and reduce damage to the industry. The USDA did not respond to inquiries about the import situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clipart Korea The US government has suspended operations in Mexico’s largest avocado-producing region. With export inspections halted, concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58032,58030,58028,58029,58025,58026,112,58031,58027],"class_list":["post-112908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seoul","tag-apeam","tag-avocado-prices","tag-avocado-supply-disruption","tag-jalisco-cartel","tag-mexico-avocado-exports","tag-michoacan","tag-seoul","tag-us-mexico-trade","tag-usda-inspections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}