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Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) allows permitted import of genetically engineered (GE) products based on the 2009 Law on “Genetically Modified Organisms” (“GMOs”) and its pertaining bylaws.

Last year, the European Union-28 (EU-28) was once again the largest export market for U.S. tree nuts.

Spain continues to host record-breaking numbers of visiting tourists.

Turkey’s sugar beet production is forecast at 20.5 MMT in MY 2019/20 and is expected to result in 2.7 MMT sugar.

Turkey has removed most of the technical barriers on importation of genetic materials for animal breeding.

As a result of another dry growing season in 2019, European Union (EU) sugar production for marketing year (MY) 2019/20 is now forecast at 17.9 million metric tons (MT) in raw sugar equivalent (RSE).

It is "off-year" for pistachios in Turkey therefore low amount of pistachio production is expected.

Tourism continued to recover in 2018 from the low hit in 2016 when domestic and geopolitical security issues nearly halted tourism.

Turkey’s Marketing Year (MY) 2019/20 sunflowerseed area and production is estimated at 730,000 hectares (Ha) and 1.66 million metric tons (MMT), of which 1.5 MMT is for use as oilseeds.

Online grocery retail, although off to a somewhat slow start in Germany, offers promising opportunities for food producers and marketers.

Bulgaria’s livestock industry performed well in 2018 and the swine sector experienced its most productive year in a decade.

Germany’s private label grocery market topped $123 billion in 2018 - 45 percent of total grocery sales in Germany.