As of December 2022, the United States and Mexico are celebrating 200 years of bilateral relations. Over these two hundred years, our nations have developed rich diplomatic and cultural ties where agriculture and trade considerations feature a prominent role.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) established their strong foundation for cooperation well over 100 years ago through many notable and successful achievements, such as preventing infectious animal diseases like foot and mouth disease from entering our countries and protecting plant health by limiting invasive insect movement across borders.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) support these efforts on behalf of the American people, working with our Mexican counterpart, Food Safety and Agro-Quality (SENASICA). We have a long, successful history of cooperative plant pest and animal disease control and eradication programs designed to protect the farmers and ranchers in each country, ensure an abundant food source for our citizens, and ensure continued trade. During the past 50 years, USDA has negotiated extremely successful sanitary and phytosanitary agricultural trade agreements, now totaling over $60 billion per year.
Source: usda.gov