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The growing hypermarket, supermarket and minimarket sectors offer significant opportunities for U.S. food products.

Export prices declined 1 to 2 percent due to a lack of new inquiries and the weakening of the Thai baht.

Export prices remain unchanged as a result of the lack of rice trading during the year-end holiday season.

The total value of all retail food and beverage (F&B) sales was 52.2 trillion yen or $474.9 billion dollars.

Japan is the fourth largest export market for U.S. exporters of food and agricultural products.

China is the largest importer of genetically engineered crops and one of the largest producers of GE cotton in the world, yet it has not approved any major GE food or feed crops for cultivation.

In 2016, estimates for Vietnam’s growing areas of biotech crop (corn) were at 35,000 ha, accounting for about 3 percent of the total cultivated corn area.

Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (GCC-4), covered by Office of Agricultural Affairs in Dubai, permit the importation of genetically engineered (GE) food products of plant origin.

There is no agricultural genetically engineered product development for commercialization purposes in Algeria. The Ministry of Agriculture’s decree of December 24, 2000....

In February 2017, Korea implemented new biotech labeling requirements for any food with detectable biotech ingredients. In May 2017, the National Seed Management Agency (NSMA) found....

In MY 2017/18, Morocco’s citrus exports will be negatively impacted by a poor harvest brought about by high temperatures in July-August, which largely limited mandarin/tangerine production....

Under the auspices of Morocco’s respective free trade agreements, the state cereals office (ONICL) issued tenders for U.S. and EU common and durum wheat.