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On July 11, 2024, China notified draft National Food Safety Standard Milk Protein to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under G/SPS/N/CHN/1303. China’s SPS Enquiry Point at sps@customs.gov.cn will accept comments until September 9, 2024. This report...

This biannual report, published in January and July, includes data on U.S. and global trade, production, consumption and stocks, as well as analysis of developments affecting world trade in citrus.

Ukraine continuously enforces food safety regulations for commercial imports with very few exceptions, despite Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine which began in February 2022. This report explains the existing regulatory landscape, including new...

On March 8, 2020, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s cabinet of ministers approved the regulation, “Instructions for Handling Food and Food Products Originating from Genetically Modified Substances Produced by Modern Biotechnology for 2018,” which was...

As the fifth largest country export market for the United States, Korea provides a promising market for U.S. agricultural products. In 2023, Korea imported about $47 billion agricultural & related products from all over the world and the U.S...

The Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) of Japan proposed three sets of revisions. First, to Japan’s maximum residue levels for 16 agricultural chemicals (Cyflumetofen, Flometoquin, Pyribencarb, Quinofumelin, Fenitrothion, Sulfachlorpyridazine...

On July 7, 2024, the Government of Mexico (GOM) announced an update for registrations in the National Catalogue of Plant Varieties to include “native varieties.” According to the GOM announcement about the update, the purpose of the change is to...

Weekly summary of U.S. export sales activity for key commodities.

This report describes the major export certificates required by the Government of the Dominican Republic (GoDR) for imports of food and agricultural products. No substantive changes were published as of June 2024.

On July 10, India’s Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) published Office Memorandum L-11/1/2019-Trade (E-11542) granting a one-month extension in the implementation of the integrated veterinary health certificate for import of milk and...

FAS Mumbai forecasts marketing year (MY) 2024/25 India cotton production at 25.4 million 480 lb. bales on 12 million hectares area planted, a three percent decrease in area from the previous forecast. Planting is underway and farmers have shifted...

Argentine wheat production in marketing year (MY) 2024/2025 is forecast up at 18.6 million tons, 600,000 tons higher than USDA’s official estimates as a result of higher planted area. Exports in the same period are projected up at 12.4 million tons...