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This report provides general guidelines on import regulations for alcoholic beverages to Hong Kong and Macao.

Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency has launched a Wine Registration Scheme whereby companies can be registered only when they are able to provide proper documents showing product traceability.

Eight U.S. exhibitors reported $200,000 in sales following a successful participation in the Hong Kong Food Expo 2014 held August 14-16.

The Office of Agricultural Affairs forecasts that China’s MY2014/15 raisin production will increase by 9 percent to 180,000 tons.

On December 31, 2013, China’s National Standardization Technical Committee on Cotton Processing published the final version of National Standard on cotton baling (GB6975-2013).

The recent detection of substandard lard produced from recycled cooking oil has caused the recall of hundreds of food products in Hong Kong and generated new proposals to regulate cooking oil waste.

Seven U.S. exhibitors reported over $130,000 in projected sales following a successful participation in the inaugural Natural and Organic Products Expo Asia 2014 held in Hong Kong during August 27-29.

MY 2014/15 sugar production is forecast at 13.3 million tons, down one million tons from MY 2013/14 on falling acreage.

Post’s September forecast for MY14/15 total oilseed production is 55.8 million tons, down by 5 percent from an estimated 58.7 million tons in MY13/14.