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FAS China (Post) forecasts China’s raw milk production in 2024 to remain high. However, declining raw milk prices have caused financial losses for a large number of raw milk producers and slowed the growth in production that the market experienced in...

Korean seafood imports totaled $6.47 billion in 2022, up 12.7 percent from the year before. Seafood for human consumption imported from the United States to Korea in 2022 reached $229 million, an increase of 5.6 percent year-to-year. The United...

In El Salvador there is no specific food law. However, the Ministry of Health’s (MINSAL) Health Code is used to enforce food safety for all food and beverage products. MINSAL is in charge of food and beverage product registration. Animal based...

SENASA and ARSA have made significant progress in expediting import procedures with the introduction of on-line options for requesting import permits, and sanitary authorizations of imported raw materials that provide immediate electronic delivery to...

The National Plant, Animal Health and Food safety Service (SENASA) is the regulatory agency in Honduras who is responsible for the inspection of all agricultural products that enter Honduras. The Sanitary Regulation Agency (Agencia de Regulacion...

This report provides an overview of Chile’s current Sanitary Regulation for Food Products (RSA by its name in Spanish), as well as any other regulation with the potential of disrupting food trade. Since the last version of this report in 2022, Chile...

This report outlines the major export certificates required by the government of Jamaica for imports of food and agricultural products.

This report outlines the requirement for exporting food and agricultural products to Jamaica. There were no major changes to these requirements in 2023.

On October 17, 2023, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) National Crop Variety Registration Committee (CNCVRC) published the first-ever variety registration list for genetically modified (GM) corn and soybeans. The list includes 37 GM corn varieties...

On October 17, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) announced the issuance of new and renewed biosafety certificates for genetically engineered (GE) events. The announcement follows the conclusion of the National Biosafety...

On October 17, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) published the revised "Administrative Measures on Labeling Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) (Draft for Comments)." Significant updates in the revised draft...

Brazil's dairy industry has recently undergone considerable changes to both production and structure of the industry. The change in the dairy sector is the result of Brazilian producers being discontent with the high level of competition from...