Negotiations are progressing to open the Mexican market to sweet citrus fruits – oranges and tangerines – from Argentina.
According to official information, during the last week of June 2018, a Mexican delegation from the National Service of Health, Safety and Agri-Food Quality (Senasica) visited production and packaging establishments of these fruits in Corrientes and Entre Ríos and inspected the Certification System of the National Service for Food Health and Quality (Senasa) at various destinations.
Now mandarins and oranges
“Mexico is an important market for Argentina. Last year we started exporting lemons to that destination and now we are moving forward in the opening for sweet citruss and, according to the results of this visit, we are optimistic that exports could begin next season," explained the National Director of Plant Protection of Senasa, Diego Quiroga.
The Mexican delegation – made up of the director of Phytosanitary Regulation, Guillermo Santiago Martínez, and the head of the Phytosanitary Epidemiological Surveillance Program department, Miguel Ángel Javier – compared the phytosanitary situation of crops in the production regions, in order to have the necessary elements to accelerate the deadlines for Pest Risk Analysis (ARP) and establish the phytosanitary import requirements.
About ARP
“The ARP is a evaluation process to determine whether a pest should be regulated and the intensity of the phytosanitary measures to be adopted against it," Quiroga explained.
At the final meeting with the Vice President of Senasa, Guillermo Rossi, Quiroga, and his technical team, the Mexican delegation expressed its satisfaction with the results of the visit, where they observed good coordination between the public and private sectors in the actions of the certification system.
Exports in figures
During 2017, Argentina exported to various destinations 78.971 tons of oranges y 40.460 tons of mandarins, placing these citrus fruits among the five most exported fruits in our country.
The main markets in this period were Spain (27.914 tons) and Paraguay (28.351 tn), for oranges, and Russia (20.024 tons) and Philippines (6.509 tn) for mandarins.
Aduana News is the first Argentine customs newspaper to launch its digital version. With 20 years of experience, its publications and initiatives aim to provide the most relevant knowledge on customs issues in order to contribute to safe trade in the region.
