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This FAIRS Country Report contains updates of the regulatory requirements and procedures for importing food and agricultural products into Saudi Arabia.

ATO Chengdu held a week-long (September 1-7) “Great American Food Festival” at a supermarket chain in Kunming.

In recent years, India’s exports have demonstrated phenomenal growth – especially to developing countries, which now account for nearly 80 percent of Indian exports.

Post’s MY14/15 forecast for cotton production remains unchanged from the previous 6.5 million tons.

Post’s August forecast for MY14/15 total oilseed production is 56.8 million tons, down by 3.3 percent from an estimated 58.7 million tons in MY13/14, primarily due to lower cottonseed production.

Beef production is expected down in 2015, as slaughter is lower than the revised 2014 number, reflecting the expectation that the UAE’s cattle donation will not continue into the coming year.

Summarized in this report: Gaza War and its impacts, imports of agricultural and food products into Israel are up and the 2013 Annual Survey of Organic Produce in Israel.

Jordan’s Ministry of Environment introduced a new draft biosafety law that would regulate agricultural biotechnology products.

Algeria’s MY 2014/15 total grain production suffered from water stress due to the spring drought. The preliminary forecast is 3.0 MMT, a 38 percent decrease from last year’s crop of 4.9 MMT.