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On February 22, 2018, Morocco improved the terms of trade concerning market access for U.S. bovine semen.

The Egyptian Chamber of Food Industries (CFI) indicates that there are over 7,000 food manufacturing companies operating in the country.

Egypt imported some $4 billion worth of food ingredients in 2017.

Israel is almost completely dependent on imports to meet its grain and feed needs.

Saudi Arabia’s barley imports for marketing year (MY) 2017/18 are estimated at 8 million MT, about 6 percent lower than the official USDA estimate of 8.5 million MT.

The report lists and describes certificates that should accompany food and agricultural products to Egypt.

On January 7, 2018, the Algerian Government issued a decree temporarily suspending 851 products, of which 576 are agricultural.

On December 25, 2017, the Israeli parliament’s Labor, Welfare and Health Committee approved new regulations requiring front of pack labeling for most prepackaged food products.

The Saudi poultry sector has experienced a major production growth in recent years. Broiler meat production is estimated at 640,000 MT in 2014, and expected to further increase 9 percent in 2015.

Summarized in this report: Temporary tariff rate quota for almonds, custom tariff removal on live calves and increased duty free import quota on fresh beef.

Egypt was the first North African country to approve genetically engineered (GE) corn.

The Tunisian legislation on biotechnology, drafted before the revolution, has been indefinitely postponed.