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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.

On September 7, 2015, China notified the WTO of the National Food Safety Standard on Fermented Alcoholic Beverages and their Integrated Alcoholic Beverages...

On September 7, 2015, China notified the WTO of the National Food Safety Standard on Distilled Liquor and Formulated Liquor...

On September 4, 2015, China notified the WTO of the National Food Safety Standard on Beer, issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), as SPS/N/CHN/1004.

FAS Sofia, in cooperation with all six Bulgarian importers of U.S. whiskey, organized the “Spirits of America” whiskey promotion which was held at one of the most popular clubs in Bulgaria...

Hail, high temperatures, and lack of rain are expected to have resulted in a substantially reduced hops production in Germany in 2015.

Minister Tkachyov’s First Interview … Amended Floating Wheat Export Duty Formula … Current Russian Grain Stocks Higher Than Average … Draft Amendments to the Russian Food Security Doctrine …