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Year-on-year Romanian grain production in marketing year (MY) 2021/22 is projected to grow by 28 percent following last year’s severe summer drought.

Export prices for all grades of rice remain unchanged from the previous week.

For MY 2020/21, Post revises down its estimate for fresh apple production to 560,000 MT. Fresh pear production is estimated to increase to 620,000 MT.

Post estimates a decline in production and export of table grapes, apples, and pears due to moderate temperatures and unexpected rainfall during the summer, which ultimately decreased yields.

Russia notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of draft amendments to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Technical Regulation (TR) on Safety of Meat and Meat Products via G/TBT/N/RUS/114.

China extended the Section 301 retaliatory tariff exclusion on sorbitol, a food additive that accounted for $1.6 million in U.S. exports to China in 2020.

As a result of these outbreaks, Botswana and Mozambique restricted imports of poultry from South Africa.

On May 12, 2021, the government of Morocco announced the increase of customs duties on common and durum wheat.

ATO/Sao Paulo forecasts the Brazilian coffee production for Marketing Year (MY) 2021/22 (July-June) at 56.3 million 60-kg bags, a significant decrease of 19 percent compared to last year’s revised record output of 69.9 million bags.

Updates marketing year 2020/21 production and export estimates and corn export forecast previously included in FAS Kyiv’s GAIN Report UP2021-0017.

In a bid to diversify market sources and maintain affordable rice prices, the Philippines has temporarily lowered the Most Favored Nation tariff rates for rice.

This report is one in a series of product briefs highlighting the tariff benefits for specific commodities and products from Year 3 (2021) to Year 5 (2023) of the agreement.