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This report is an annual update of Venezuela’s agricultural product import standards and enforcement mechanisms for U.S. exporters of agricultural commodities, foods, and beverages.

This report identifies the export certification requirements for agricultural and food products.

Market year (MY) 2025/2026 Venezuelan sugar production is forecast to grow upward to 415,000 metric tons on account of steady yields, continued access to crop inputs, and sustained profit margins within the sugar industry.

FAS (Post) forecasts Venezuelan market year (MY) 2025/2026 corn production to reach 1.2 million metric tons (MMT), a 14 percent decrease year-on-year due to a significant drop in seed availability for the summer planting season.

Venezuela’s economy is in decline. Three consecutive years of gross domestic product contraction, and more recently hyperinflation, have resulted in a severe economic crisis.

This report identifies the different export certification requirements currently in place by product.

An ongoing, severe economic crisis in Venezuela has led to three years of consecutive, double digit economic contraction and contributed to falling U.S. agricultural product exports to Venezuela....

U.S. agricultural product exports to Venezuela averaged a notable $1.4 billion per year from 2010- 2014.