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What's New — November 2009

USDA Employees Help to Rebuild Afghanistan
—Foreign Agricultural Service Announces Assignment of USDA Employee to Top Agriculture Position in Afghanistan (11/20/09)
—USDA Employee Frederick Salinas Volunteers to Help Rebuild Afghanistan's Agricultural Sector (11/20/09)
—USDA Employee Arnold Norman Volunteers to Help Rebuild Afghanistan's Agricultural Sector (11/20/09)
—USDA Employee Craig White Volunteers to Help Rebuild Afghanistan's Agricultural Sector (11/20/09)
—USDA Employee Paul Heidloff Volunteers to Help Rebuild Afghanistan's Agricultural Sector (11/20/09)
—USDA Employee James Hoffman Volunteers to Help Rebuild Afghanistan's Agricultural Sector (11/20/09)
— More about Agriculture in Afghanistan: Rebuilding for a Stable, Secure Country

FAO logo Agriculture Deputy Secretary Merrigan Meets With World Food Program and Iraq Agricultural Officials (11/20/09)
— Updated Fact Sheet: USDA at Work for Agriculture in Iraq (November 2009)
— Merrigan Addresses Global Agricultural Leaders (11/18/09)
— World Summit to Tackle Global Hunger Problems (USDA Radio News; 11/16/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— Agriculture Deputy Secretary Merrigan Announces Travel to Rome for 36th Ministerial Conference of the FAO (11/13/09)

Docked ship USDA Announces Funding Allocations To Promote Food And Agricultural Products Overseas (11/18/09)

Docked ship Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Announces $234 Million To Promote U.S. Food and Agricultural Exports (11/12/09)

Cochran Fellowship Program
New and expanded information now available as the Cochran Fellowship Program celebrates its 25th anniversary.
— USDA's Cochran Program Welcomes Six Fellows from Afghanistan to Colorado for Veterinary Training (11/05/09)

FAS Commodity and Market Intelligence Reports
— Sugar: World Markets and Trade (.pdf; 11/19/09)
— Few Changes in the Corn, Soybean and Cotton Outlook (USDA Radio News - 11/17/09; mp3)
— Russia: Conditions Improving for 2010/11 Winter Grains (11/17/09)
— China Cotton Area and Production Revised Downward (.pdf; 11/10/09)
— Corn Exporters Fight For Market Share (.pdf; 11/10/09)
— Growing Fuel Use Limits Exports of Soybean Oil by South America (.pdf; 11/10/09)
— Historical Changes Made to Bangladesh Imports and Consumption (.pdf; 11/10/09)
— New Round of Production and Price Forecasts Coming Tuesday (USDA Radio News; 11/06/09 - mp3)
— Upcoming USDA Reports Will Include Foreign Prospects (USDA Radio News; 11/06/09 - mp3)
— Agricultural Exchange Rate Data Set
— Latest U.S. Agricultural Trade Data

Overlapping U.S. and Moroccan flags. Trade Negotiations and U.S. Agriculture
— Ambassador Kirk, Moroccan Minister of External Commerce Maazouz Discuss the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (U.S. Trade Representative; 11/03/09)
— More about the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement

U.S. Response to Taiwan's Expanded Market Access for U.S. Beef
— Joint Statement from USTR and USDA Spokeswomen Regarding Expanded Market Access for U.S. Beef in Taiwan (11/02/09)

Trade Capacity Building and Food Security in Africa
— USTR Leads Trade and Investment Talks with Largest African Regional Economic Community (11/02/09)

Secretary Vilsack's Travel to Philippines and China
— Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Meets With Cochran Program Alumni in China to Recognize Program's 25th Anniversary (10/30/09)
— China Agrees to Improve Access for U.S. Energy Companies, Reopen Market to U.S. Pork, Clamp Down on Internet Piracy at the 20th Session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (10/29/09)
    — Vilsack Discusses the Ag Trade Progress Made at U.S.–China 2009 JCCT (USDA Radio News; 10/30/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— USTR Kirk and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announce China's Intent To Re-Open the Chinese Market to U.S. Pork Products (10/29/09)
    — USDA Livestock Analyst Discusses China's Intention To Re-Open Its Market to U.S. Pork (USDA Radio News; 10/30/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— U.S.-China Joint Commission On Commerce and Trade, Fact Sheet - October 29, 2009
— Southeast Asia Trade and Investment Mission (USDA Radio News; 10/28/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— U.S.-Philippine Trade Relations: Interview with Secretary Vilsack (USDA Radio News; 10/28/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces $8.5 Million in Disaster Assistance for the Philippines in Aftermath of Typhoons (10/26/09)
    — USDA Radio News (10/28/09; wma, real, mp3)
— Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and USTR Ron Kirk Convene 20th Session of U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade in Hangzhou, China (10/21/09)
— Dialogue Continues For U.S. and China Joint Committees (USDA Radio News; 10/21/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— Vilsack Announces Travel to Philippines and China (10/19/09)
— More about U.S.-China trade

Biofuels and U.S. Agricultural Trade
— USDA Official Testifies on Advancing Future of Next Generation Biofuels (USDA Radio News; 10/30/09 - wma, real, mp3)
— USDA Official Discusses Need to Accelerate Biofuels Research, Development (USDA Radio News; 10/30/09 - wma, real, mp3)

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces U.S. Members of Three Working Groups Under The U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral (10/26/09)

— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid For Anhydrous Milkfat To Asia And Eurasia (10/29/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bids For Cheddar Cheese To Asia And Eurasia (10/28/09)
— USDA Accepts DEIP Bid For Anhydrous Milkfat To Africa And Middle East (10/26/09)
— Federal Register Notice: Notice of Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection for the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) (10/07/09)
— More information about the program

Featured Reports
11/17/09 Russia: Conditions Improving for 2010/11 Winter Grains
11/10/09 China Cotton Area and Production Revised Downward (.pdf)
11/10/09 Corn Exporters Fight For Market Share (.pdf)
11/10/09 Growing Fuel Use Limits Exports of Soybean Oil by South America (.pdf)
11/10/09 Historical Changes Made to Bangladesh Imports and Consumption (.pdf)
11/03/09 Late Summer Crop Travel to Central and Southeast Europe Revealed Higher Yield Expectations
11/03/09 Western Australia 2009 Crop Travel: September 12-25, 2009
10/21/09 Ukraine: Fall Dryness for 2010/11 Winter Grains

World Production, Market and Trade Reports
11/19/09 Sugar: World Markets and Trade (.pdf)
11/16/09 Frozen Potato Products: World Markets & Trade (.pdf)
11/16/09 Dairy Monthly Import Circular
11/10/09 Cotton: World Markets and Trade
11/10/09 Grain: World Markets and Trade
11/10/09 Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
11/10/09 World Agricultural Production
10/30/09 U.S. Planting Seed Trade
10/16/09 Livestock and Poultry: World Markets & Trade
10/16/09 Sugar Monthly Import and Re-Export Data Report
10/16/09 Tree Nuts: World Markets & Trade (.pdf)

2009 Release Dates

Export Regulations
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Federal Register Notices
11/16/09 Notice of Request for Extension of a Currently Approved
Information Collection - P.L. 480, Title I - Financing and Recordkeeping Program
11/04/09 Notice of a Request for Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection (Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing program)
10/07/09 Notice of Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved Information Collection for the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP)
09/29/09 Determination of Total Amounts of Fiscal Year 2010 Tariff-Rate Quotas for Raw Cane Sugar and Certain Sugars, Syrups and Molasses
09/24/09 Request for Public Comments To Compile the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers and Reports on Sanitary and Phytosanitary and Standards-Related Foreign Trade Barriers
09/21/09 Interim Guidelines and Funds Availability: Projects Involving the Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid
09/21/09 Solicitation of Input from Stakeholders on Revised Fees for the Export Credit Guarantee Program
09/08/09 Market Access Program: Proposed Rule
08/25/09 Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers: Proposed Rule
08/14/09 Assessment of Fees for Dairy Import Licenses for the 2010 Tariff-
Rate Import Quota Year
08/14/09 Adjustment of Appendices to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota
Licensing Regulation for the 2009 Tariff-Rate Quota Year
08/06/09 Facility Guarantee Program: Advanced notice of proposed rulemaking

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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