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Export prices are steady due to light trading ahead of an expected government tender announcement in the week of March 2. Sources indicate the upcoming tender is likely to include only white rice.

This report on sanitary, veterinary, phytosanitary, ecological controls and compulsory conformity certification matches the applied controls to specific commodity HS Codes.

On February 25, 2015, upon publication of the Resolution № 119-p, Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers imposed an additional 5-10 percent duties on imports with exceptional of few critical items.

Export prices declined only around 1 percent due to lower-than-expected sales of government stocks. A new government tender for 1 million metric tons is expected by February 27.

Despite political and economic turmoil, Ukraine was able to increase poultry production and exports in 2014. In 2015, production growth will continue slowing down.

Export prices are steady while traders wait for the result of the one million metric ton rice tender.

On 29 December, 2014, the Ministry of Finance issued a Notification providing further preferential duty reduction schedules under Section 12 of the Customs Tariff Decree B.E. 2530 for imported seafood

Thai rice exports reached a record 11 million metric tons in 2014 driven by the sales of government stocks.

Export prices remain unchanged from the previous week.

Ukraine’s sale of grains continues as the risk of political interference, which had diminished perspectives for the next marketing year (MY) crop are finally quelled.

Thailand is one of the world’s leading agricultural suppliers, primarily due to its welldeveloped food processing sector.