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From May 15-24, 2014, ATO Chengdu led a trade mission of 14 retail sector professionals to the Sweets & Snacks Expo (SSE) in Chicago, Illinois, followed by business visits in California and New York.

This biannual report, published in May and November, includes data on U.S. and global trade, production, consumption and stocks, as well as analysis of developments affecting world trade in sugar.

Global wine trade climbed to a record 5 billion liters in 2013, up 75 percent from little more than a decade ago.

Specialists from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service traveled to Kyiv in early April to conduct interviews with agricultural officials and private commodity analysts in order to assess Ukrainian crop-production prospects for 2014. The observations...

Tangjiuhui (China Food and Drinks Fair) is a semiannual event held every autumn and spring in China.

Exports of high-value, processed food products have been a significant contributor to the strongest five-year period for agricultural exports in U.S. history.

In 2013, Taiwan was the seventh largest market for U.S. food and agricultural products with imports of US$3.2 billion.

Costa Rica’s sugar cane production forecast to increase by 12 percent in 2012/13 thanks in part to favorable weather conditions.

Egypt’s cotton production is expected to decline in 2013/14 in the face of what Egyptian farmers regard as relatively low prices.

Brazil’s sugarcane crop is forecast at 640 million metric tons for the 2013/14 marketing year (May-April), up 48.9 million tons from the previous season.

The Dominican Republic is not expected to fill the U.S. annual sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for FY 2013 due to the current supply situation in the U.S. market.

The EU is plagued by a highly regulated system that has hindered its ability to react to the supply shortfalls seen over the last few years.