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The production of apples, pears and table grapes is estimated to decrease slightly in the 2022/23 Marketing Year (MY), based largely on stagnated production area and a return to normal yields following record production for all three commodities.

New Zealand apple production in 2022/23 has been revised down sharply as a result of the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, which hit the nation’s largest apple growing and exporting region – Hawke’s Bay/Gisborne – in February.

On May 8, 2023, the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) published Notification No. 5/2023, Amendment in Import Policy Conditions of Apples under the Indian Trade Classification (ITC) Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HS) Code 0808.1000 of Chapter-08 of the ITC (HS), 2022, Schedule-I (Import Policy).

In marketing year (MY) 2022/23, FAS Santiago estimates that table grape production will decrease by 8.6 percent reaching 720,000 metric tons and that exports will decrease by 8.7 percent, totaling 555,000 metric tons.

The 2022 U.S. Agricultural Export Yearbook provides a statistical summary of U.S. agricultural commodity exports to the world during the 2022 calendar year.

On April 21, the European Commission proposed to update the marketing standards of select agriculture products such as fresh fruit and vegetables, nuts, honey, juices, eggs and poultry.

The Government of India’s (GOI) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published on their website guidelines on product approvals.

For MY 2016/2017, lemon production is forecast to decrease due to unfavorable weather conditions in the main citrus growing region of Argentina.

The Brazilian orange crop for 2016/17 is forecast at 351.7 million boxes, down 14 percent from the previous crop, due to weather-related problems during blossoming and fruit setting.

For MY 2015/16 EU-28 citrus production is projected to reach 10.448 MMT, in-line with the previous estimates.

Post revises orange production for MY 2015/16 to 922,000 MT, representing a 6 percent increase compared to the previous year on a planted area of about 55,804 hectares...

Graphic illustrating the total export of U.S. agricultural products to Canada in 2015, including the total value and top 5 commodities.