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Brazil is the second largest producer of biotech crops in the world.

The growing hypermarket, supermarket and minimarket sectors offer significant opportunities for U.S. food products.

Export prices declined 1 to 2 percent due to a lack of new inquiries and the weakening of the Thai baht.

Export prices remain unchanged as a result of the lack of rice trading during the year-end holiday season.

Chile offers excellent opportunities for U.S. food exports.

In 2016, exports of consumer-oriented products to Jamaica reached a record level of $173.7 million.

For over a decade, Peru has been one of the world’s top performing economies, registering sustained high growth accompanied by low inflation.

In 2016, the Dominican Republic was the fifth-largest market, valued at almost $484 million, for U.S. consumer-oriented products in the Western Hemisphere after Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Chile.

The total value of all retail food and beverage (F&B) sales was 52.2 trillion yen or $474.9 billion dollars.

Japan is the fourth largest export market for U.S. exporters of food and agricultural products.

China is the largest importer of genetically engineered crops and one of the largest producers of GE cotton in the world, yet it has not approved any major GE food or feed crops for cultivation.

In 2016, estimates for Vietnam’s growing areas of biotech crop (corn) were at 35,000 ha, accounting for about 3 percent of the total cultivated corn area.