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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.

Egypt’s food and beverage manufacturing and processing sector suffered about $2.2 million (about a 10 percent decrease in sales) due to diminished tourism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Office of Agriculture Affairs (Post) forecasts refined sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2021/22 to increase by approximately 2.6 percent or 75,000 metric tons (MT) to reach 2.85 million metric tons (MMT).

In MY2021/22 wheat imports are forecast to reach 1.2 MMT.

The 2021 crop season in Morocco is progressing under favorable conditions with timely and sufficient rainfalls

Beginning on April 1, 2021, the Government of Algeria (GoA) again extended the confinement measures through mid-April 2021

Marketing year 2019/20 was another record year for U.S.-origin soybean exports to Egypt.