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On April 16, 2018, China’s Food Safety Bureau (formerly of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine) stopped using the electronic Trade Document Exchange System (eTDE)....
China will lower the value-added tax (VAT) rate applied to sales and imports of agricultural products (including grains) from 11 percent to 10 percent.
Post forecasts that sugar production in South Africa will increase by 7 percent to 2.2 million MT in the 2018/19 MY, based on the improvement in sugar cane quality, better factory recoveries....
Post forecasts that sugar cane production in Swaziland will increase by 5 percent to 5,700,000 MT in the 2018/19 MY, due to good rainfall received at the beginning of the year....
Post forecasts that sugar cane production in Zimbabwe will increase by 9 percent to 3.5 million MT in the 2018/19 MY, based on a return to normal weather after the previous year’s drought....
On March 16, 2018, China notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of the draft Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Aflatoxin Contamination in Food, as SPS/N/CHN/1068.
In the second of its ongoing “Friends of the ATO” series of seminars, ATO staff hosted business leaders from throughout Northeast China to discuss the U.S.-China wood market outlook....
Production for MY 2018/19 is projected at 1.45 million metric tons (MMT) based on minor increases to both area and yield.
Marketing year (MY) 2018/19 total area and rice production for Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal is forecast at 2.4 million HA and 4.2 million MT assuming good weather....
Post projects MY 2018/19 cotton fiber production to rise to 725,000 bales (480 lb.) based on steady yield increases and the anticipation of continued government price supports for growers.
FAS/Nairobi forecasts a 30 percent increase in Kenya’s sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2018/2019 following a recovery from drought in the main sugarcane growing areas.
In early 2017, field samples were collected confirming the existence of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in Mozambique.