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Panama did not make any policy changes on regulating Genetically Engineered (GE) plants, seeds and animals, including for GE microbes, in the past year.

This report provides U.S. food and agriculture exporters information on how to do business with the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional (HRI) sector in Panama.

This report provides information to U.S. exporters of agricultural and related products on how to do business with the retail food sector in Panama.

Panama’s food processing ingredients market is valued at $135 million annually. Panama’s food and beverage sector is one of the main manufacturing sectors of the economy.

On April 16, 2019, AquaBounty, a U.S. company that developed genetically-engineered (GE) salmon in Boquete, Panama closed its production and research facilities.

This report provides information to U.S. exporters of agricultural and related products on how to do business in Panama.

Panama is an attractive market for exporting U.S. agricultural food products.

Panama has approved the imports of GM corn seeds for local production, and has conducted GM mosquitoes and salmon field tests.

According to major economic forecasts, Panama is expected to experience the greatest growth in the region during 2014, at an expected rate of 7.2 %, despite delays in the canal expansion project.