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The Hong Kong market has developed into a dynamic wine export destination since the abolishment of wine tariffs in 2008. The slow recovery of the global economy dampened the city’s global imports of wine in 2023.

ATO Taipei, in partnership with thirteen Taiwan craft beer breweries and four U.S. craft beer importers, delivered a successful consumer-facing craft beer festival that promoted U.S. ingredients through 84 craft beers.

In 2019, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) entered into force. As a result, Japan approved 16 new wine additives that were previously not allowed in wine produced or consumed in Japan.

Post forecasts Bulgaria’s 2019 grape crop will remain unchanged at 195,000 metric tons (MT), most of which will produce about 120 million liters of wine.

For eleven consecutive years, Japan’s whiskey market has grown, despite gradually declining sales for all alcoholic beverages.

Post estimates that the wine grape production will increase marginally by 1 percent to 1.25 million Metric Tons (MT) in the calendar year 2020, due to the improved availability of irrigation water....

U.S. beer exports to South Korea totaled $67 million in 2019, up 74 percent from the previous year.

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