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What's New - November 2008

United States Wins WTO Dispute Against EU’s Discriminatory Bananas Preference Program (.pdf; 11/26/08)

VOA Web Site of the Week: Voice of America Features FAS Web Site (11/21/08)

Shanghai’s Youth Market: Changing Perceptions in Food Consumption (11/14/08; .pdf)

History of U.S. Grain Exports to Japan (11/05/08: .pdf)

Russia Wheat: Record Estimated Production for 2008/09 (11/10/08; .pdf)

Unprecedented Drop in Grain Prices (11/10/08; .pdf)

Record Wheat Production Estimated World Wide In 2009 (USDA Radio News; 11/13/08 - real, mp3)

Cotton: USDA’s Forecast of World Import Demand Continues to Fall (11/10/08; .pdf)

Brazil’s Soybean Export Growth Limited by Expanding Domestic Use (11/10/08; .pdf)

Brazil Soybean Crop And Impacts On World Supply And Demand (USDA Radio News; 11/12/08 - real, mp3)

Record Year for American Agricultural Trade (USDA Radio News; 11/25/08 - real, mp3)
— Ag Trade Has Far And Away A Record Year In FY 2008 (USDA Radio News; 11/14/08 - real, mp3)
— Latest U.S. Agricultural Trade Data (11/13/08)

Schafer To Lead U.S. Delegation To International Conference On Biofuels In Brazil (11/18/08)
— U.S. Delegation Prepares For International Biofuel Conference (USDA Radio News; 11/18/08 - real, mp3)
— Talk Of Second Generation Biofuels Highlight Global Conference (USDA Radio News; 11/19/08 - real, mp3)

Australia Reduces Its Wheat Crop Forecast (USDA Radio News; 11/05/08 - real, mp3, wave)

Featured Reports
11/25 Australia Crop Travel Report
11/25 Ethiopia 2008 Crop Assessment Travel Report
11/21 Ukraine: Early Prospects for 2009/10 Winter Grains
11/10 Late Season Buying Surge Results in Record Monthly Chinese Soybean Imports (.pdf)
11/10 Cotton: USDA’s Forecast of World Import Demand Continues to Fall (.pdf)
11/10 Grain: Unprecedented Drop in Grain Prices (.pdf)
11/10 Russia Wheat: Record Estimated Production for 2008/09 (.pdf)
11/10 Tree Nuts: 2008/09 Forecast Overview (.pdf)

World Production, Market and Trade Reports
11/18 Sugar: World Markets and Trade (PDF)
11/14 Dairy Monthly Import Circular
11/13 Sugar Monthly Import and Re-Export Data Report
11/10 Grain: World Markets and Trade
11/10 Cotton: World Markets and Trade
11/10 Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
11/10 Tree Nuts: World Markets and Trade
11/10 World Agricultural Production
11/06 U.S. Planting Seed Trade

2008 Release Dates

Export Regulations
In Detail

Federal Register Notices

11/06/08 Notice of Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection for Supplier Credit Guarantee Program
11/06/08 Notice of Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection for GSM-102 Program
10/24/08 McGovern Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program and Food for Progress Program - Proposed Rule
09/16/08 The Dairy Import Licensing Program - Final Rule
09/03/08 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Emerging Markets
09/03/08 Assessment of Fees for Dairy Import Licenses for the 2009 Tariff-Rate Import Quota Year
08/29/08 Adjustment of Appendices to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Regulation for the 2008 Tariff-Rate Quota Year
07/17/08 Edward R. Madigan United States Agricultural Export Excellence Board of Evaluators: Nomination
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Emerging Markets Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Market Access Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Quality Samples Program
05/07/08 Notice of a New System of Records: Dairy Accelerated Importer Retrieval and Information Exchange System (DAIRIES) to administer the Dairy Import Licensing Program
04/02/08 Notice of product coverage and trigger levels for safeguard measures provided for in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture
04/01/08 Notice of Request for New Information Collection on Genetic Resources for U.S. Food and Agriculture
01/24/08 Inviting Applications for the Emerging Markets Program
Export Sales

Archival export sales reports are available from 1998 to the present. -- The Export Sales Reporting Program: The Early Alert System for U.S. Exporters (brochure)

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