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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) invited public comments on measures that provide the requirements and guidelines for herbicides used on and for genetically engineered (GE) crops.

Post sees Philippine biofuels consumption partially recovering in 2021 due to the loosening of quarantine restrictions, as ethanol demand grows 9 percent to 570 million liters and biodiesel increases 9 percent to 175 million liters.

Rice export prices decreased 1-2 percent due to the weakening of the Thai baht against the U.S. dollar that offset the upward pressure on current domestic prices of paddy rice.

On December 1, 2021, Taiwan completed the last tender for approximately 12,000 MT of U.S. long grain brown rice, thus concluding tenders for 2021 country specific quota (CSQ) for U.S. rice.

In September 2021, the Hong Kong government decided not to launch a scheme requiring pre-market safety assessments for biotech events initially proposed in 2013. Hong Kong did not have any policy changes on regulating genetically engineered (GE)...

Since the last report, high-level officials in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have made strong public statements emphasizing the importance of biotechnology development taking place within China. While the regulatory system for biotechnology...

This report contains a link to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) December 6 Constituent Update asking for U.S. establishments that currently export certain food products to China voluntarily submit information to FDA by December 17, 2021...

On December 6, 2021, China’s National Crop Variety Registration Committee (NCVRC) published its National Registration Standards for Genetically Engineered Soybean Varieties and National Registration Standards for Genetically Engineered Corn Varieties...

FAS/Bangkok (Post) revised MY2021/22 rice production down slightly to 20.8 million metric tons due to flood damage in the northeastern regions. Post expects Thai rice exports to increase to 5.8 million metric tons in 2021. Post forecasts MY2021/22...

MY2021/22 cotton import demand is expected to increase 9 percent, well below average annual import demand prior to the COVID-19 pandemic due to slow economic recovery. MY2020/21 cotton imports further declined 15 percent from MY2019/20. Imports of U...

On December 3, the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC) published a “Single Window User Manual” for overseas enterprises attempting to register their facilities in line with the requirements of Decree 248...