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Export prices are steady due to light trading ahead of an expected government tender announcement in the week of March 2. Sources indicate the upcoming tender is likely to include only white rice.

Marketing year (MY) 2015/16 wheat production is forecast at 94 million metric tons (MMT), marginally lower than last year’s record production due to less acreage.

Pakistan’s cabinet-level Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) authorized Rs. 6.5 billion ($65 million) to facilitate the export of sugar from stocks that are currently with sugar mills.

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published updated draft regulations regarding naturally occurring toxic substances (NOTS) in some foods and beverages.

Over the past several years, the African Union Commission (AUC) has explored the possibility of setting up a food safety body to help address many of the systemic food safety challenges across Africa.

The Russian Government Approved Anti-Crisis Plan . . . Pink Salmon Exports Decline . . . Transport of Far Eastern Fish to Get More Expensive . . . Green Agro to Invest in Primorye Livestock . . .

On February 10, 2015 the Decree releasing the first stage of 2015 Kazakh quota was signed by the Minister of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

This report on sanitary, veterinary, phytosanitary, ecological controls and compulsory conformity certification matches the applied controls to specific commodity HS Codes.

On February 25, 2015, upon publication of the Resolution № 119-p, Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers imposed an additional 5-10 percent duties on imports with exceptional of few critical items.

Under the May 2012 United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA), certain commodities are imported into Colombia under TRQs.

Over the past five years, North China’s imported fruit market has continued to boom as a result of an evergrowing number of direct shipments.

A tender for 800 head of EU breeding bulls (400 head of Simmental, 200 head of Charolais, 200 head of Limousin) will be held on March 24, 2015.