The U.S. has lifted a ban on Mexican avocado imports after less than a week.
The suspension of inspections had threatened Mexico's $3 billion annual exports and raised the possibility of prices increases for U.S. consumers.
The inspections were halted last week after one of the U.S. inspectors was threatened in the western state of Michoacán, where growers are routinely subject to extortion by drug cartels.The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday that the inspector had received a threat “against him and his family.”
“I am pleased to report that today the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service has determined it will immediately resume its avocado inspection program in Michoacán,” Salazar wrote.A worker stacks crates of avocados at a packing plant in Uruapan, Mexico.The week-old ban had already been taking a toll on avocado pickers in Michoacan, who stood on a roadside this week outside the city of Uruapan asking for donations after they lost their work.
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