Any foods not allowed into Mexico

Wow I guess you guys are right. Mexico a Nation with its own laws and regulations should cower to tourist dollars.......let's see, Tucson gets a ton of Mexicans every weekend of Sonoran shoppers to their malls. The Mexicans claim at the border they are just spending money in the USA for goodness sake, they should be allowed to take certain things to their family that live there, as gifts of course (damned be the law). So for the sake of USA tourism based on spending by foreigners they should back off of their super restrictive code of whats allowed and whats not allowed into the USA when it comes to border crossing.... Yeah works for me, let's see how that works for you. Mexico has the right to limit what is introduced into it's country, just the same as Canada and the USA, easy peasy figure it out. You cross into a different country and you have to do what they want, just like when I cross back into the USA.......don't be smug, its not about you, its about country sovereignty

Totally agree.

I do not buy all that sovereignty stuff. I can understand having bans on fruits that could carry infestations. They do and should protect their agricultural industries.I also understand if they want to have a weight limit on meat and other products. No one should be allowed to bring in 50 lbs. of meat or 4 Turkeys. But Mexico has to decide if they want tourists who enter in RV's or autos. We all know of the many handicaps to growing that sector of the tourist industry. We may not be a significant portion of the tourist industry but all of these hurdles are part of the problem. I don't feel sorry for the RV park owners or anyone else involved in that sector. Get off your butts and lobby for easier border crossings. Otherwise just close the border!

So no one has crossed at Lukeville in the last week or two?

Some of those restrictions are actually there to prevent infestations and plagues to migrate.

The best example.

Person smuggled oranges from Mexico to Southern California, some of this fruit had the larva of the fruit fly and the orange industry in California took one hell of a hit, for years we had aircraft flying in patterns releasing sterile male fruit flies, the millions of dollars that the economy and the eradication program is costing, all because one person did not heed a simple rule and a lot of persons have to pay for this, it has been years and this program of fruit fly eradication is still going on.

navegator

Last year at Lukeville they only took our beef. Pork & chicken was ok & nothing else. Has it changed this year?

I don't claim to understand any of this. But it has to do with trade and free trade and probably NAFTA. It has been a bit over 20 years and they still haven't figured out how to make agreements work. So one country has some silly restriction causing another country finds a way to have silly restrictions too. There are probably reasons for some of it but I do think a lot of it is just sort of tit-for-tat nonsense. Wiki does have info on NAFTA but the explanation still falls short of what really goes on. I have read all kinds of info about trade agreements and still don't get a lot of it. One example I read had to do with why so many manufacturing plants are locating in Mexico - guess what - not about labor costs but about trade agreements. US restricts more trade and Mexico has far more trade agreements with countries around the world so products made in Mexico can be freely shipped and sold in more countries all over the world. So auto manufacturers locate in Mexico to sell what they build all over the world - US restricts trade with the result that fewer US built cars can be sold while more Mexico built cars can be sold. What does this have to do with chicken at Lukeville? Very little and I would guess very few people who have their chicken taken know why. Money and greed folks - same answer when you boil down a lot of this stuff to the bottom line.

moisheh wrote:
AFAIK the only place where those rules are enforced is Lukevile. The rules are ridiculous and are there for trade protection. There is C--p in Mexican pet food that I would not give to our cat.

Moisheh

If you think those few rules are ridiculous think about what you cannot bring into Canada or the US.

Every country has these kinds of restrictions, it's part of Sovereignty. And each country has different levels of enforcement. It's really not a burden as long as you have done your homework first.

moisheh wrote:
AFAIK the only place where those rules are enforced is Lukevile. The rules are ridiculous and are there for trade protection. There is C--p in Mexican pet food that I would not give to our cat.

Moisheh

Moisheh - with all due respect, these laws are on the books at the Federal level. Segarpa has been very active in enforcement of these rules, not just at Lukeville but across the total Ports of entry.

It is just that Lukeville is a tourist crossing only, it does not allow commercial activity so the agents at Lukeville are probably a bit more diligent knowing that Rvers and weekend warriors tend to bring their own food in.

It would be a shame to lose valuable food in the hopes of not being inspected say at Nogales or Tijuana. Further on this, there are new Agents that work for Sagarpa at every Port of Entry as of September 16th. Just be forewarned, thats all.

We are going to be crossing at Lukeville in less than a week. Two years ago they wanted all of our frozen food, and we refused. Last year, it wasn't the food, but that our cat didn't have a rabies certificate. They let us off, finally, but made us promise to have one this year. We have it.
Don't know what this crossing will bring, but if it's a major hassle again, we'll cross elsewhere after this.
Anyone cross there recently? How was it?????