Demands for Beef Smuggling Controls

Guatemalan retailers and suppliers are demanding that the government tighten controls to prevent smuggling of meat into Mexico.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

These illegal transportations have, according to retailers, influenced the increase in the price of a pound of meat which this week was trading at $3.3.

In the meeting with officials from the Ministries of Economy, Agriculture and Interior, Julio Rivera Claveria, Vice Minister of Security at the Ministry of Interior said that they would increase controls "in the blind spots where meat is passed on to the neighboring country."

Among the control measures being asked for is '... supporting the Mexican government in order to prevent the illegal sale of beef in that country and that all vehicles transporting cattle to another country require the submission of documentation issued by the Maga and the SAT", reported Prensalibre.com
For their part, representatives of providers have expressed interest in importing meat from Nicaragua.

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