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China’s in-shell walnut production is forecast at 1.02 MMT in 2020/21, an increase of 2 percent from the previous year, supported by a good harvest in the country’s top two producing provinces.

It is an ‘on-year’ for pistachios for Turkey; consequently a high amount of production is anticipated for Marketing Year (MY) 2020/21.

Taiwan pecan imports rose by 74 percent (by volume) in 2019, making Taiwan the second largest Asian market for U.S. shelled pecan exports.

In 2019, U.S. shipments of tree nuts to the EU-28 (EU-27+UK) reached $3.1 billion. The United States continues to be the largest supplier of tree nuts to Europe.

The Government of India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) notified in the Official Gazette of India, the Food Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives)...

Tree nut and peanut shipments imported into the European Union have to comply with European Union maximum levels for aflatoxin.

The growth of South African tree nut production is expected to continue in the 2019/20 MY, based on the increase in area planted as the industry responds to increasing demand from export markets...

In 2019, Macau’s retail food sector sales rose 7.3 percent to US$613 million, a positive growth trend forecast to continue, especially in segments where U.S. products have strong prospects...

As part of a new regulation to track certain agricultural and food commodity imports, including tree nuts, Turkey’s Ministry of Trade requires importers of these commodities to register each import...

On February 18, 2020, China announced a new round of tariff exclusions for U.S. agricultural commodities impacted by the retaliatory Section 301-tariffs levied by China.

An ongoing, severe economic and political crisis in the country has led to hyperinflation and contributed to falling U.S. agricultural product exports.

Though down by four places on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking, the Ghanaian food market remains a great prospect for U.S. agricultural exports due to robust growth in demand....