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U.S. snack exports to Guatemala reached $18.9 million in 2019. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, sales of savory snacks grew by 10 percent in 2020, and retail volume sales grew by 5 percent...

Two key free trade agreements – the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (or CAFTA-DR) and the U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement – have stimulated U.S. agricultural exports...

Guatemala has no laws to promote biofuels development, but the country is the strongest potential producer of biofuels in Central America.

Guatemala, at present, allows the importation of genetically engineered (GE) agricultural and food products, but has not approved the use of GE plants for agricultural production.

Because of the coffee rust epidemic in Central America, Guatemala's coffee prodution is expected to fall 8 percent in 2014.

In the global sugar industry, Guatemala ranks 11th in production, 5th in exports, 3rd most competitive, and 1st most efficient at port loading.