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Animal welfare is at the heart of a discussion about an “agricultural turnaround” and the future of farming in Germany.

On December 23, 2016, Ecuador’s Foreign Trade Committee passed the extension of the current tariff and duty exemption for soybean meal imports from all origins (including the United States).

Algeria’s 2017 Finance Law increases value added tax for many products and will decrease imports of barley, corn, soybean meal, rice, oat, sorghum and DDGs.

Italy is the second largest olive oil producer in the European Union (EU) after Spain and accounts for approximately one-quarter of the EU-28 olive acreage.

China is the world’s largest importer of genetically engineered (GE) crops and one of the largest producers of GE cotton in the world, but it has not yet approved any major GE food crops...

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published in India’s official gazette a draft Regulation on food fortification.

Costa Rican food processors and consumers trust and value food products that include U.S. raw materials and ingredients. Demand for quality ingredients has been steadily increasing...

In 2016 Bulgaria followed EU agricultural and food import requirements. Please see GAIN report E16060 for detailed description of EU import regulations and requirements.

Home to winter sports, ski resorts, and ancient Manchurian towns, Dongbei or Northeastern China is home to 110 million people.

The Government of India’s (GOI) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) postponed the compliance date for the trans-fat declaration in food products February 27, 2017.

The Italian food-processing industry continues to be highly fragmented, and depends almost entirely on raw material imports, most of which come from other EU countries.

Post increased its 2016/17 production forecast to 102 million metric tons (mmt), a record.