Mexican avocado growers are confident that exports to the U.S. will continue on a ‘good path’

Mexican avocado growers, who are having one of their finest seasons due to the joy of the Super Bowl, were confident Wednesday that shipments «are on the right track» despite tensions with the US and US President Donald Trump’s announcement of tariffs.

“We do not want to speculate, since this is a very delicate problem between authorities, what we do hope is that we go on the right track, for when it touches the review of the issue because for us obviously (is) the future of vision as an industry,” Armando López Orduña, general director of the Association of Producers and Packers Exporters of Avocado of Mexico (APEAM), told EFE.

The executive linked to potential tariffs imposed by the United States, whose Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated on Tuesday that February 1 remains the effective date of Trump’s promised duties owing to the flow of migrants and narcotics from Mexico.

Avocado farmers in Mexico expand exports to the United States in the weeks preceding the Super Bowl, to the extent where, according to APEAM, almost 110,000 tons of avocados were sent to U.S. land in the first four weeks of 2025, primarily for guacamole production.

Super Bowl LIX, i.e. the NFL (National Football League) final, will be held on February 9 in New Orleans between Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.

Meanwhile, Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, expressed this Wednesday in her morning conference that she “does not believe” that the tariffs will materialize, although she assured to have a plan to face them.