On The Cover				.PDF
Staff Contacts				.PDF
Feature Reports
	Almond Situation and Outlook			.PDF
	Northern Hemisphere Apple Situation and Outlook			.PDF
	World Table Grape Situation and Outlook			.PDF
	Canned Deciduous Fruit Situation in Selected Countries			.PDF
	Northern Hemisphere Pear Situation and Outlook			.PDF
	The Free Trade Area of the Americas: An Analysis For A Select Basket of Fruit and Vegetables			.PDF
World Trade Situation and Trade Policy Updates				.PDF
	Commerce Department Announces and Amends Preliminary Dumping Margins in the Antidumping Case Against Canadian Greenhouse Tomatoes
	Commerce Department Announces Final Determinations in Antidumping Duty Investigation of Honey from Argentina and China and Countervailing Duty Investigation on Honey from Argentina
	Commerce Department Institutes Five-year "Sunset" Review on the Suspended Antidumping Investigation on Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico
	Commerce Department Will Not Extend Scope of Antidumping Duties on Non-Frozen Chinese Concentrated Apple Juice
	Japan Proposes a Safety Net on Domestic Vegetables 49
	Philippine Ban on Chinese Fruits and Nuts Could Bring New Market Opportunities for U.S. Exporters
	Bi-national Panel Announces Decision on Mexico/U.S. High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
Organic Updates				.PDF
	Danish Government Tests Reveal GMOs in Organic Feeds
Statistics
	Almonds: Production, Supply, and Distribution in Selected Countries	WK4	or	.PDF
	U.S. Exports of Almonds	WK4	or	.PDF
	U.S. Imports of Almonds	WK4	or	.PDF
	Apples: Production, Supply, and Distribution in Selected Countries	.WK4		.PDF
	U.S. Apple Exports	WK4	or	.PDF
	Table Grapes: Production, Supply, and Distribution		or	.PDF
	Table Grapes: U.S. Exports		or	.PDF
	Table Grapes: U.S. Imports		or	.PDF
	Canned Peaches: Production, Supply, and Distribution	.WK4	or	.PDF
	Canned Pears: Production, Supply, and Distribution	WK4		.PDF
	U.S. Imports of Canned Peaches	WK4		.PDF
	U.S. Exports of Canned Peaches	WK4		.PDF
	U.S. Exports of Canned Pears	WK4		.PDF
	U.S. Exports of Canned Fruit Mixtures	WK4		.PDF
	Pears: Production, Supply, and Distribution	WK4		PDF
	U.S. Pear Exports	WK4		PDF
	U.S. Pear Imports	WK4		PDF
	Top United States Horticultural Product Exports By Value	WK4		PDF
	Top United States Horticultural Product Exports By Volume	WK4		PDF
	Top United States Horticultural Product Imports By Value	WK4		PDF
	Top United States Horticultural Product Imports By Volume	WK4		PDF
	Selected Horticultural Crop Prices Received by U.S. Growers	WK4		PDF

U.S. exports of horticultural products to all countries in August 2001 totaled $893 million, down 2.9 percent from August 2000. The only categories with increases in August were miscellaneous horticultural products (up 5.7 percent to $161 million), processed vegetables (up 0.3 percent to $146 million), and wine and beer (up 2.7 percent to $70 million). All other categories declined, with double-digit declines in essential oils (down 16 percent to $54 million), processed fruits (down 13 percent to $54 million), and fruit and vegetable juices (down 10 percent from August 2000 to $67 million).

August exports to Canada, the largest market, were up 3 percent from August 2000 to $271 million. Exports to the European Union (EU) were down 13 percent to $144 million, while shipments to Japan were down 18 percent to $112 million. Exports to Mexico rose 20 percent from August 2000 to $103 million. Exports to Malaysia showed the most dramatic jump for August 2001, up 29 percent from August 2000, to $11 million. Exports in August 2001 to Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Singapore fell to $41 million (down 18 percent), $9 million (down 15 percent), and $9 million (down 15 percent), respectively, from August 2000.

Exports for the October-August 2000/01 period are up 6 percent from the same period in 1999/2000 to $10.2 billion. Shipments of tree nuts show the most growth (up 16.9 percent to $1 billion) for the October-August 2000/01 period. Essential oils exports are up 16.7 percent to $630 million, fresh fruit exports are up 9 percent to almost $2 billion, and fresh vegetable exports are up 5 percent to $1.2 billion. The fastest growing markets for FY 2001 to date are: China, up 73 percent; Malaysia, up 65 percent; Mexico, up 13 percent; the Philippines, up 13 percent; and the European Union, up 10 percent. On the other hand, exports to Japan are down 4 percent for the October-August 2000/01period.
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New U.S. Trade Internet System Prompts Elimination of Statistical Tables and Charts on U.S. Horticultural Product Trade, Effective with the October 2001 Issue of "World Horticultural Trade and Export Opportunities."

The public now has unlimited access to the most up-to-date data on U.S. exports and imports of agricultural, fishery, and forestry products, to the 10-digit Harmonized System (HS) classification code level. The U.S. Trade Internet System allows users the flexibility to customize their data searches and save their criteria for repeated use. Users can obtain value or volume data for selected HS codes or commodity groupings to track trends going back to 1989.

Search through the country and market reports prepared by FAS attaches covering over 20 horticultural and tropical product commodities and nearly 130 countries.

The Horticultural and Tropical Products Division has introduced a feature on its homepage designed to bring the latest information to the public as efficiently as possible. The site contains information on policy and technical developments affecting trade in horticultural commodities, selected reports submitted by FAS overseas offices, and special reports. For further information, please contact Nancy Hirschhorn (202) 720-2974. Go to http://www.fas.usda.gov/htp/