The UK has secured new entry particularly for Northern Irish exporters via devoted negotiations with Mexico.
The twelve permitted companies will even now be capable to export offal and edible by-products, bringing British pig farmers a return on components which can be much less standard within the UK however which Mexican shoppers relish as a part of classical buche meat dishes.
With consumption in Mexico’s pork market rising by 5.4% yearly between 2019 and 2024, business estimates anticipate the deal to usher in £19m over the primary 5 years.
The 12 websites permitted embrace:
- Cranswick Nation Meals PLC – Hull, Watton and Ballymena
- Pilgrim’s Pleasure Ltd – Spalding and Westerleigh, Bristol
- Thermotraffic Ltd – Wrexham
- Magnavale Chesterfield Ltd – Chesterfield
- ABP Chilly Retailer – Hull
- Americold Spalding Ltd – Spalding
- Turners (Soham) Ltd – Suffolk
- Karro Meals Group – Cookstown
- Interfrigo Ltd – Antrim
This profitable end result follows eight years of negotiations between Mexican and UK authorities led by Defra, together with Meals Requirements Company, DAERA and business partnerships with beneficial help from the Division for Enterprise and Commerce and the FCDO.
The deal will pave the way in which for future alternatives for British exporters, with 20% tariffs on pork set to vanish as soon as Mexico ratifies the UK’s accession to the Complete and Progressive Settlement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), making high quality British produce much more aggressive on this rising market.
August 4, 2025/ UK Authorities/ United Kingdom.
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