U.S. agricultural exports to Southeast Asia have experienced extremely rapid growth in recent years and, in FY 2014, they climbed to a record $11.5 billion – up 11 percent from FY 2013.
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.
Kazakhstan's draft biotech law could remain stalled until the country's WTO accession. Meanwhile, new Customs Union regulations address labeling and import of biotech products.
The ability of U.S. agricultural and food exporters to penetrate the growing EU market is constrained by tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and increased global competition.
On March 29, 2017, the Russian Federation notified to the WTO via G/SPS/N/RUS/139 that “The Common List of Plant Quarantine Objects of the Eurasian Economic Union" was approved on November 30, 2016...
While the United States had a $16 billion agricultural trade surplus with the rest of the world in 2015, it ran a record $12 billion trade deficit in farm and food products with the European Union.