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On Monday, November 12, a highly unusual hail storm damaged fruit crops that were in development in the O’Higgins region, one of the top fruit producing areas in Chile.

For marketing year (MY) 2018/19, Post estimates Chile’s apple production will reach 1.24 million metric tons (MMT) and 720,000 MT of exports assuming average yields, and a 4.2 percent decrease....

Chile offers excellent opportunities for U.S. food exports in the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Food Service (HRI) sector.

Chile’s fluid milk production has been stagnant in the last five years reaching nearly 2.1 billion liters in marketing year (MY) 2017.

In MY2017/18, Chilean almond import volume increased by 32.5 percent and exports increased by 5.4 percent over MY2016/17.

The Belgian government announced in late August 2018 the introduction of a voluntary scheme for front of pack nutritional labeling.

Chile’s cherry exports reached a record of 184,741 MT in MY2017/18. Cherry trees planted area grew steadily at a 10.2 percent rate surpassing 30,000 hectares (ha) in MY2017/18.

Chile’s raisin production relies on inputs from table grape production from the northern regions in Chile, which offer the best climatic conditions for raisin production.

On July 25, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment that organisms created through many newer genome editing techniques are to be regulated....

The annual revenue of the Belgian food retail industry for 2017 is estimated at around USD 32 billion.

On June 14, 2018, an agreement on the successor to the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) was reached for 2021-2030.

Chile’s food retail sales reached $16.7 billion in 2017. The main food distribution channels are supermarkets with a share of about 62 percent.