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New Zealand’s wine grape area and wine production are forecast to continue to increase in 2020.

In 2019, Macau’s retail food sector sales rose 7.3 percent to US$613 million, a positive growth trend forecast to continue, especially in segments where U.S. products have strong prospects...

Enclosed is a brief analysis of the Norwegian wine monopoly’s (Vinmonopolet’s) sales of wine and beer in calendar year 2019. Norway was a $12.2 million export market for U.S. wine and beer in 2019.

The National Tax Agency of Japan invites public comments on the use of dimethyl dicarbonate, (DMDC) to preserve wine and “fruit wine” products. Comments need to be submitted in Japanese.

Germany is the fourth largest wine producer in the European Union after France, Italy, and Spain.

South Korean wine imports reached a record $259 million in 2019, up 6.3 percent from 2018. U.S. wine exports to Korea increased 11.6 percent in 2019 to $34 million.

Italy’s CY 2014 wine production is forecast to drop 14 percent from the previous campaign to 41.6 million hectoliters (Mhl), due to unfavorable weather conditions this summer.

Taiwan’s beer market increased to 517 million liters (137 million gallons) in 2013.

U.S. exhibitors reported positive export opportunities at Hong Kong International Wine and Spirits Fair 2014, with projected sales in the next 12 months of over US $200,000.

The U.S. has long been the leading supplier of wines to the Philippines and, since 2009, the Philippines has been the largest U.S. wine market in Southeast Asia in terms of volume.

Kazakhstan introduced a ban on the importation or sale of alcohol products that are not in compliance with the Customs Union Technical Regulation on food safety and Kazakh labeling requirements.