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Rice export prices further declined 1 to 2 percent due to both the weakening Thai baht and new supplies of off-season rice entering the market.

China’s 2019 chicken meat production is forecast at 12.65 million metric tons, representing 8 percent year-on-year growth.

This report serves to remind U.S. exporters of Hong Kong’s practice of defining the effective date of a ban resulting from an avian influenza (AI) outbreak on impacted U.S. poultry....

In 2018, China continued to be the world’s largest seafood producer, with production stable at 64.5 million metric tons (MMT) as a decline in wild catch was offset by growing aquaculture production.

On March 4, 2019, Indonesia and Australia officially signed the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA).

ATO Shenyang has launched the Friends of the ATO business initiative to bring together contacts in Northeast China’s agricultural, forest and fishery sectors, and to highlight FAS’ role....

China’s total pulse production from Marketing Year 2018/19 (October 2018 until September 2019) is forecast at 4.4 million tons, down about 5 percent from MY2017/18 due to lower harvested area.

Local press reports that a major Hong Kong retail chain has urged local suppliers to agree that any product price increase requests must be submitted 12 weeks in advance with detailed....

This report is an overview and update of Japan’s general legal and technical requirements for food and agricultural imports.

On January 31, 2019, Japan’s Ministry of Finance revised the beef and pork safeguard trigger volumes to reflect the entry into force of a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union....

On February 8, 2019, Japan’s Ministry of Environment released its final policy for the regulation of genome editing technologies.

At a recent trade forum, Hong Kong Food Safety Center (CFS) officials reminded traders that Hong Kong food regulations prohibit the import and sale of meats which have been injected with water....