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Consumer trends in Nicaragua are shifting towards modern retail channels as remittance flows increase. Supermarkets are expanding rapidly, with one grocery store chain opening eight new locations in 2024.

On February 2, 2024, the Jordan Standards and Metrology Organization (JSMO) notified G/TBT/N/JOR/55 to the World Trade Organization, Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade.

Two key free trade agreements – the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (or CAFTA-DR) and the U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement – have stimulated U.S. agricultural exports...

Jordan counts with increasingly westernized consumer tastes. Its 10.5 million consumers are demanding a wider variety of foreign food and agricultural products that are attractively packaged....

Commencing February 15, 2018, the Jordanian government is imposing a 20 percent sales tax on 164 items, mostly food and beverage products (including carbonated drinks)....

This report contains changes in Section VIII: Slaughterhouse registration; Dairy products—ban on partially hydrogenated oils in processed dairy products; Preserved food—ban of tartrazine....

Since the United States entered into the CAFTA-DR trade agreement, U.S. agricultural exports to the six CAFTA-DR countries have more than doubled.

The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is banning the use of partially hydrogenated oils in dairy products.