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On April 16, 2018, China’s Food Safety Bureau (formerly of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine) stopped using the electronic Trade Document Exchange System (eTDE)....

Japan will provide preferential dairy access to the European Union (EU), New Zealand and Australia through two separate free trade agreements which could enter into force as early as 2019.

On April 6, 2018 France published its third emergency decree banning cherry imports from countries where the use of the chemical dimethoate is legal.

Guatemala is one of the major food processing countries in Central America. U.S. suppliers have a good opportunity to export bulk commodities and raw materials for further processing....

China will lower the value-added tax (VAT) rate applied to sales and imports of agricultural products (including grains) from 11 percent to 10 percent.

The Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO) has concluded its barley purchases for marketing year (MY) 2017/18.

On April 20, 2018, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) invited public comments on revised Japan Agricultural Standards (JAS) for sawn lumber and Cross Laminated Timber....

On March 16, 2018, China notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of the draft Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Aflatoxin Contamination in Food, as SPS/N/CHN/1068.

The Government of Japan revised the national liquor tax law in 2017.

On April 10, Taiwan completed a Simultaneous-Buy and Sell (SBS) tender for 18,500 tons of U.S. origin rice.

This report contains an unofficial translation of Tunisia’s import requirements for corn and soybean meal.

This report contains an unofficial translation of Morocco's microbiological standards for food of animal origin, as established in 2004.