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Contact: Sam Jones-Ellard, Agricultural Marketing Service, (202) 660-2268, samuel.jones@ams.usda.gov WASHINGTON, July 9, 2015 – The United States and Switzerland announced today that beginning July 10, 2015, organic products certified in the United...

Contact: USDA Office of Communications (202) 720-4623 WASHINGTON, June 30, 2015 – U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and United States Trade Representative Michael Froman today announced the appointment of 129 private-sector members...

Contact: Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs, (202) 720-7115 WASHINGTON, June 12, 2015—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the fiscal year 2016 raw and refined sugar tariff-rate quotas (TRQ), and an increase in the...

U.S. organic companies exhibit at the SIAL Paris 2014 trade show. The U.S. organic industry is taking advantage of growing opportunities to market its products in Europe. Thanks to the support of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), American...

Photo: Agricultural attachés from around the world explore a cranberry marsh in Warrens, Wisconsin. Phil Karsting, Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator Wisconsin is known worldwide for its cheese, but what about its cranberries, ginseng, urban...

USDA Announces First Quarter Sugar Feedstock Flexibility Program Expectations and Sugar Tariff Rate Quotas for Fiscal Year 2015 Contact: USDA Office of Communications (202) 720-4623 WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA...

Contact: Office of Communications (202) 720-4623 WASHINGTON, July 1, 2014 – Organic processed products certified in the United States or Korea can now be labeled as organic in either country. This will allow American organic farmers, processors, and...

Two years ago this month, the United States and the European Union (EU) implemented an organic equivalence arrangement, meaning products that are certified as organic in the U.S. can also be sold as organic in the EU, and vice versa. This arrangement...

Contact: USDA Office of Communications, (202) 720-4623 December 20, 2013 -- Yesterday, Agriculture U nder Secretary Michael Scuse joined Tim Hamilton, executive d irector of Food Export-Midwest and Food Export-Northeast, as well as Dave Ramirez of...

Contact USDA Office of Communications (202) 720-4623 BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sep. 26, 2013 — The United States and Japan today announced that beginning January 1, 2014, organic products certified in Japan or in the United States may be sold as organic...

Contact: Office of Communications (202) 720-4623 WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2013 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden will lead a trade mission to promote U.S. agricultural trade...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2013 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the Fiscal Year 2014 raw and refined sugar tariff-rate quotas. USDA is establishing the FY 2014 TRQ for raw cane sugar at 1,231,497 short tons raw value (STRV) (1...