LatinNews Daily - 14 May 2019

* Mexico has signed a phytosanitary agreement with China allowing it to export bananas to the Asian country. Mexico’s agriculture minister, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, and China’s customs deputy minister, Zhang Jiwen, have celebrated the agreement as the starting point of new, successful cooperation between their two countries. Villalobos expects the agreement to benefit banana producers in the Mexican states of Tabasco, Chiapas, and Veracruz in particular, and has urged the food sanitation authority (Senasica) to begin informing producers of the conditions that must now be met to enter the Chinese market. Villalobos hopes to reach further agreements with China by the end of the year to export sorghum from the state of Tamaulipas and pork offal, while Zhang has expressed Chinese producers’ interest in finding a market in Mexico for honey and frozen shrimp.

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