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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)....

Mexican sugar production for marketing year 2018/19 is forecast to be 6.57 million metric tons raw value (MMT-RV), although there is not yet an official forecast.

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.

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....

Total cotton production for marketing year (MY) 2018/19 is forecast to be 1.57 million bales, slightly higher than the previous marketing year.

The Secretariat of Economy (SE) published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register), on April 10, 2018, an announcement containing the maximum quota allotment of sugar to be exported....

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....

On April 3, 2018, Mexico published four notices announcing incentive programs intended to address an oversupply of corn in certain parts of the country....

The value of Panama’s food processing ingredients market is valued at $110 million annually with U.S. products holding 60 percent of the market share.

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.