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Ecuador’s Foreign Trade Committee’s COMEX Resolution 019 (September 10, 2014) stipulates that processed food product imports receive prior Ministry of Agriculture authorization.

On December 11, Ecuador’s AGROCALIDAD confirmed acceptance of USDA Quito’s proposal to implement a 30-day quarantine period for blue tongue disease.

Ecuador’s food processing industry is a key player within the country’s manufacturing sector, accounting for about 45 percent of the manufacturing sector’s contribution to the country’s GDP.

This report outlines Ecuador’s requirements for food and agricultural product imports.

Ecuador’s Foreign Trade Committee (COMEX) resolved on November 26, 2014, to extend the current tariff and duty exemption for soybean meal imports from all origins (including the United States).

Despite slower growth forecast for 2015 and measures to restrict imports, Ecuador offers U.S. food and agricultural product exporters a number of trade possibilities.

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) imports approximately two-thirds of its overall food needs.

The European Commission released its Progress Report on BiH’s pre-accession efforts and concluded that substantial work remains to be done in the fields of agriculture and rural development.

There is a need for genetic improvement of BiH’s dairy herds to increase the production of milk and meat and create higher income for the rural population.

Bosnia and Herzegovina imports 90 percent of the pet food consumed and these imports reached $7.5 million in 2013.

Ecuador maintains anti-biotechnology laws and regulations.

Bosnia and Herzegovina recently started adopting regulations that govern biotech products.