MEXICO CITY, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Mexico's Economy Ministry said on Tuesday the government had asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to help lift import restrictions placed on Mexican pork following a deadly A/H1N1 flu outbreak.
In a letter to the 153 members of the WTO's Sanitary and Hytosanitary Measures Committee, Mexican Economy Ministry added that scientific evidence suggests there is no justification to restrict meat imports, Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, the minister, told a press conference.
Eight nations including Bolivia, Ecuador and Honduras have restricted pork imports from Mexico, which has been the epicenter of the worldwide outbreak killing 29 in the country and one in the United States.
With the eight nations representing less than two percent of Mexico's total pork trade, the ministry is trying to ensure that other nations that account for more trade do not take the same steps.
The ministry had already sent letters to those nations' governments on April 30, which argued that the measures lacked both legal and scientific basis.
The letters also called for an end to all restrictions on Mexican trade unless they were consistent with the scientific information available.
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