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With approximately 1.7 million metric tons (MMT), Italy provides approximately 19 percent of the EU- 28 apple production.

Italy is the second largest olive oil producer in the European Union (EU) after Spain and accounts for approximately one-quarter of the EU-28 olive acreage.

Italy is suffering from a severe summer drought caused by low rainfall (80 percent below average in the first half of 2017) and exceptionally high temperatures for most of the year.

Italy’s MY (marketing year) 2016/17 orange and tangerine productions are expected to drop severely by 38 and 25 percent respectively compared to MY 2015/16 due to lack of summer rains....

According to the latest data from the Italian Enologists Association (Assoenologi), Italy produced 5.1 billion liters of wine in 2016, 1.5 percent more than the previous campaign....

Export prices of white and parboiled rice further declined by 1 to 2 percent while prices for fragrant rice continued to increase.

Exhibitors at the U.S. Pavilion at BIOFACH organic trade show reported on-site sales nearly double that of the 2017 show and “serious” business contacts up by over 50 percent.

The Netherlands has increasingly become a trading hub for organic products.

China’s food regulatory regime continues to evolve. In 2017, China issued numerous new regulations and measures to reflect the requirements introduced under the 2015 Food Safety Law.

This report lists the major export certificates required by the Chinese government for imports of food and agricultural products. After a fourteen year hiatus, in 2017 China reopened its market...

On January 9, 2018, China notified the World Trade Organization of Measures pertaining to the Inspection and Supervision of Import and Export Prepackaged Food Labeling as TBT/CHN/1246.

Article 93 of the 2015 Food Safety Law makes recommendations in the case of imported products without a Chinese food safety standard.