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This report describes the major export certificates required by the Government of the Dominican Republic (DR) for imports of food and agricultural products.

The Dominican Republic (DR) is the fifth-largest market for U.S. agricultural products in the Western Hemisphere, valued at $1.26 billion in 2019.

American exporters face new market conditions in Colombia, as well as new opportunities, as the country emerges from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

From January-October 2020, U.S. agricultural and related products exports to Costa Rica reached $591 million.

Exports from the United States of agricultural and related products to Mexico totaled $20 billion in 2019.

The Dominican Republic continues to be a strong market for U.S. bulk agricultural products (corn), intermediate goods (soybean meal), and high value consumer-oriented products...

Mexico has not approved any biotechnology food or feed products since May 2018 and there is no official indication when approvals will resume.

Costa Rica’s orange production is forecast to decline to 285,000 metric tons (MT) in Marketing Year (MY) 2020/2021.

Mexico has announced proposed changes to its organic import procedures under the “Agreement Establishing Goods whose Import and Export are Subject to Regulation by the Ministry of Agriculture...

Orange production in marketing year (MY) 2020/21 is forecast to partially rebound after drought decimated last year’s crop by nearly 40 percent.

For MY 2020/21, Post forecasts fresh lemon production at 1.03 MMT, down 30 percent from MY 2019/20, due to cold damage and dry growing conditions.

On November 9, 2020, Colombia’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection (MINHEALTH) issued Resolution 2013, a regulation that sets mandatory maximum sodium content limits for 59 processed food...