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Central America and the Caribbean, with their close geographical and economic ties to the United States, have always been an important market for U.S. agricultural exports.

In the past decade, one of the most apparent trends agricultural trade patterns has been the growth in agricultural trade between developing countries or so-called “South-South trade.”

The Government of Costa Rica recently issued a Decree fixing producer and consumer prices of rice, thus maintaining a longstanding policy of price fixing in the domestic rice market.

Post revised the 2015 outlook for production, consumption and exports of beef and pork, respectively.

A more difficult economic environment is expected slow growth in the poultry sector.

Post kept its forecast for Brazil's 2014/15 soybean production at a record of 93 million metric tons (MT).