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The National Food Safety Authority continues to develop standards and procedures regulating food safety in Egypt.

For a decade, trade of beef and beef products to Egypt have been very disrupted.

On June 15th, Egypt postponed its launch of the Advanced Clearance Information system (ACI). The Minister of Finance pushed the 1st of July deadline of full implementation of the new system to October 1st, 2021 citing the delay had been requested by several companies and diplomatic missions.

As countries roll back COVID-19 restrictions, foreign market demand for beef is becoming a bright spot for U.S. producers.

The U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is the only U.S. FTA on the African continent and offers advantages to exporters seeking to do business in Africa.

Morocco has increased its wheat and barley production estimate for MY 2021/22 by 206 percent over MY 2020/21 due to favorable weather conditions.

Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (GCC-4), permit the importation of genetically engineered (GE) food products of plant origin.

As of October 2019, there are no changes in Israel’s policy towards plant and animal biotechnology compared to 2018.

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan's agricultural biotechnology regulations throughout 2018-19 remain unchanged.

Algeria does not develop, commercialize or import genetically engineered products.

On February 17, 2020, the Moroccan grains authority (ONICL) issued the second tender of 2020 to import 354,545 MT of durum wheat from the United States under the Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ).

New regulations requiring front of pack labeling are set to enter into force on January 1, 2020.