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On November 14, 2017, Egypt’s Administrative Court took the lawsuit filed against Prime Minister Sherif Ismail’s Prime Ministerial Decree No. 2992 (2016); the plaintiff seeks to revert the decree....

The USA pavilion was comprised of five U.S. companies, down from 10 in 2016. While U.S. exhibitors reported some promising leads, on-site and 12-month projected sales were nominal.

Under the auspices of the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, on November 10, 2017, Morocco’s Cereals Office (ONICL) announced the results of the second U.S. wheat tender of calendar year 2017.

Effective October 27, Tunisian banks stopped financing the importation of non-essential consumer products, adversely impacting between $5-30 million of U.S. food and agricultural sales.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation’s Central Administration Plant Quarantine issued on October 31, 2017, Directive No. 48 – Regarding Special and Complementary Regulations....

Saudi Arabia’s barley imports for MY 2017/18 are projected at 7.8 million MT, a decrease of 13 percent compared to the official USDA estimate of 9 million MT.

On October 22 the Bank of Algeria issued a new instruction to Algerian banks regarding the treatment of international commerce.

The below average winter rainfall received in 2017 and the low dam levels (about thirty percent) in the drought stricken Western Cape, will severely impact the availability of irrigation water....

Post forecasts that South Africa will export about 2 million tons of corn in the 2017/18 MY, drawing on a relatively large carry-over stock from the 2016/17 MY.

Currently, broiler production in South Africa is under pressure due to the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8).