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United Arab Emirates: Food Processing Ingredients
The United Arab Emirates' food processing sector continues to expand, bolstered by strong economic growth and local demand.
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Spain: Spain Seafood Report 2023
Spain is one of the largest markets worldwide for fish and seafood. In 2022, Spain was the fourth largest importer of fish and seafood in the world after the United States, China, and Japan.
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Japan: MAFF Support Payments for Struggling Dairy Industry
Japan introduced an emergency program to induce early slaughtering of less-productive dairy cows in March 2023 as an incentive to reduce excess milk production and support dairy farm management.
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Guatemala: Grain and Feed Annual
Corn production in 2023/2024 is forecast to increase slightly, despite a reduction in planted area, as commercial farmers look positively at 2023 average record prices of $625/metric ton (MT) at the wholesale markets.
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El Salvador: Food Processing Ingredients
El Salvador’s food manufacturing sector has been able to successfully adapt to a challenging environment and has provided signals of a rapid recovery, despite facing a continuous crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the supply chain shortages that increased the costs of raw materials and other inputs needed to produce food.
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Turkey: Grain and Feed Annual
Turkey’s grain sector continues to grapple with different challenges, the most recent of which are earthquake and drought.
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China: Grain and Feed Annual
Post forecasts little change in overall feed production in MY2023/24 but corn utilization in feed rations should rise while wheat and rice utilization should decline.
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New Opportunities Arise in the Netherlands Post-Pandemic
Since the Netherlands lifted all COVID-19 related restrictions at the end of February 2022 and most people returned to the workplace, new opportunities continue to emerge for U.S. agricultural products.
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Weekly Export Sales
This weekly report is a summary of U.S. export sales activity for barley, beef, cattle hides and skins, cattle wet blues, corn, cotton (by type), cottonseed, cottonseed cake and meal, cottonseed oil, flaxseed, grain sorghum, linseed oil, oats, pork, rice, rye, soybeans, soybean cake and meal, soybean oil, sunflower seed oil, wheat (by class), and wheat products.
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Peru: Food Processing Ingredients
Peru’s food processing industry is a dynamic sector of the national economy.
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China: Food Processing Ingredients Annual
Demand for food processing ingredients such as tree nuts, dairy products, pulses, meat, and frozen and dried fruit is expected to continue to expand.
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China: Formulas for Special Medical Purposes Intended for Infants Draft Standard Notified
On March 6, 2023, China notified the National Food Safety Standard:
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Poland: Proposed Amendment to Animal Protection Rules in Poland
On March 22, 2023, the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development proposed a draft Act on Special Arrangements to Improve the Supervision over Animal Health and Protection.
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Philippines: Food Processing Ingredients
As factories have effectively returned to pre-COVID operations, food and beverage manufacturers have purchased more food and beverage ingredients to address domestic consumption.
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Panama: Food Processing Ingredients
This report provides information to U.S. exporters of agricultural and related products on how to do business with the Food Processing industry in Panama.
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Paraguay: Oilseeds and Products Annual
Post projects marketing year (MY) 2023/2024 soybean production at 10 million metric tons (MMT) as planted area rises to 3.55 million hectares and Paraguay returns to trend for yield.
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Philippines: Oilseeds and Products Annual
FAS Manila forecasts copra production at 3 million MT for MY 2023/24 because of the coming El Niño and the break from the 3-year productive cycle.
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Taiwan: Oilseeds and Products Annual
Taiwan’s soybean imports are forecast at 2.65 MMT for MY2022/2023 and MY2023/2024.
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Malaysia: Oilseeds and Products Annual
Post forecasts Malaysian palm oil production in marketing year (MY) 2022/23 at 18.85 million metric tons (MT), up 702,000 MT from the previous year as the labor situation continues to improve.
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Taiwan: Grain and Feed Annual
Taiwan’s domestic wheat production, 4,000 MT in MY2022/2023, is dwarfed by imports at 1.4 MMT for the current MY. Australia is expected to further recover wheat market share from the United States due to competitive pricing and production recovery.