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China’s retail sector offers great opportunity for U.S. food and food product exporters. However, there remains to be many challenges in reaching and selling U.S. food products in the retail sector.

Italy, as part of the European Community, has implemented EU regulations for the import of products of animal and plant origin.

This report is intended to supplement the FAS U.S. Mission to the EU’s Food & Agricultural Import Regulations and Standards (FAIRS) report with Italy-specific information.

Italy is the second largest olive oil producer in the European Union (EU) after Spain and accounts for approximately one-quarter of the EU-28 olive acreage.

China is the second largest seed market in the world, annually planting 12.5 million tons of seed, with a market value at $17.2 billion.

The State Council Duty Committee (SCDC) released the 2017 Tariff Adjustment Plan which lists changes in tariff rates for calendar year 2017. These new rates went into effect on January 1, 2017.

China is the world’s largest importer of genetically engineered (GE) crops and one of the largest producers of GE cotton in the world, but it has not yet approved any major GE food crops...

Home to winter sports, ski resorts, and ancient Manchurian towns, Dongbei or Northeastern China is home to 110 million people.

This report is meant to provide practical tips to U.S. agricultural, forest and fishery companies on how to conduct business in China.

On October 19, 2016, China’s State Council Legal Affairs Office (SCLAO) published a revised version of the Draft Implementing Rules of the Food Safety Law for review.

This report is intended to supplement the FAS U.S. Mission to the EU’s Food & Agricultural ImportRegulations and Standards (FAIRS) report with Italy-specific information.

The Italian food-processing industry continues to be highly fragmented, and depends almost entirely on raw material imports, most of which come from other EU countries.