Donald Trump has enacted his Muslim ban and now it seems avocados are being banned too.

The US Department of Agriculture has held up Mexican avocados from entering into the country just after a possible border tax could cause a 20 per cent spike in the cost for American avocado lovers.

Rows about avocado importing came when American potatoes were blocked from entering Mexico.


More than five trucks of 100 tonnes of the green fruit from Jalisco, a Mexican state, were blocked entry into the States.

Bad news avocado lovers (Picture: Getty Images)

The state were only recently allowed to begin to export into America because of worries that a Mediterranean fly had infiltrated Jalisco’s plants.



Mexican producers have got a court order to ban American potatoes from entering the country. Some have suggested the blocking of Jalisco’s avocados was in revenge for the potato ban.

America’s southern neighbour is currently facing Trump’s pledge to renegotiate NAFTA and build a wall to keep ‘bad hombres’ out of America.

What is NAFTA? President Trump has made a pledge to renegotiate the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but what is it? NAFTA was signed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton and his Mexican and Canadian opposites. It was an attempt to help small businesses sell abroad without tariffs. It created the world’s largest free-trade area however people on both sides of the political divide are not happy with it. Bernie Sanders, the firebrand Vermont Senator that ran against Secretary Clinton in 2015, voted against NAFTA and has opposed it ever since. President Trump called it ‘the single worst deal ever approved’ and blamed loss of jobs and manufacturing on the agreement. Avocados and other fruit and vegetables are also covered by the tariff-free trade.

President Trump has said that the wall is necessary and famously claimed ‘Mexico is going to pay for the wall.’

The cost will be met by the border tax, it has been claimed. But former Mexican president has poured cold water on Trump’s bold promises.

Neither in public nor in private that #FuckingWall will ever be built. @realDonaldTrump is crumbling on his own words. Mexico HOY #to2unidos — Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) January 27, 2017

These current difficulties with the on-trend green fruit couldn’t come at a worse time for sports fans in America.

Guacamole is almost a national tradition for Superbowl fans – the big game is on February 5.

In recent years avocados have increasingly become a popular healthy meal option with its green colour popular on Instagram posts and domestic goddess, Nigella Lawson, included ‘avo on toast’ in her latest cook book.

Nigella, 57, was an early fan of the green American fruit – technically a berry. It is now not just for hipsters and is available at cheaper stores like Aldi and Lidl.