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The Venezuelan economic and political crisis continues to influence all sectors of the economy, including agricultural production and trade.

Thai rice prices are under downward pressure as supplies of MY2020/21 main-crop rice began entering the market.

Total trade year (TY) 2019/20 wheat exports were down four percent despite a significant increase during the second half of the year.

Mexican fresh deciduous fruit production faces challenges in marketing year (MY) 2020/21 due to adverse weather.

Thanks to FAS Bogota’s engagement with Colombian port authorities and coordination with USDA agencies, Colombia’s local food safety authority released six containers of U.S. food products...

Turkey announced additional tariff reductions on lentils and eliminated tariffs on sunflower seed. According to a Presidential Decree published in the Official Gazette on November 5, 2020...

In the summer of 2020, the first mink farms in North Jutland were infected with coronavirus (COVID19).

Weekly report as of November 6, 2020, of COVID-19 impact on Indian port operations.

On October 29, 2020, India’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by the Prime Minister approved revised prices for ethanol procurement by the state-owned Oil Marketing Companies...

Ukraine adopted several maximum residue levels (MRLs) for veterinary drugs, coccidiostats and histomonostats in food products of animal origin.

On November 2, 2020, Argentina authorized a payment scheme to compensate small and midsize farmers for a portion of their export taxes paid on soybeans.

On October 30, 2020, Hong Kong officially filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization’s dispute unit against the United States on the subject of the United States’ new labelling arrangement...