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On April 16, 2018, China’s Food Safety Bureau (formerly of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine) stopped using the electronic Trade Document Exchange System (eTDE)....

China will lower the value-added tax (VAT) rate applied to sales and imports of agricultural products (including grains) from 11 percent to 10 percent.

On March 16, 2018, China notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of the draft Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Aflatoxin Contamination in Food, as SPS/N/CHN/1068.

This report contains an unofficial translation of Morocco’s maximum limits of contaminants in food, as established in 2016, with some limits set to come into force in 2020.

This report contains an unofficial translation of Morocco's microbiological standards for food of animal origin, as established in 2004.

In the second of its ongoing “Friends of the ATO” series of seminars, ATO staff hosted business leaders from throughout Northeast China to discuss the U.S.-China wood market outlook....

On March 1, 2018, China’s General Administration for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) published a “List of Feed Additives and Feed Pre-mixed with Additives....

Morocco has established new tariff-rate quotas for biscuit wheat, refined sugar, skim milk powder and whole milk powder in order to support industrial manufacturers in the biscuit, chocolate....

Post’s forecast for MY18/19 cotton planted area is 3.38 million hectares (MHa), up from the estimated 3.35 MHa in MY17/18.

China’s beef production will increase by 1 percent in 2018 to 7.4 MMT.

China’s agricultural policy-makers manage the dual mandate of ensuring national food security while pursuing poverty alleviation targets, which aim to raise rural incomes....

U.S. wood exports to South China Climb to New Record…Upcoming opportunities for U.S. exporters to meet with a wide range of South China importers....