Each recognizes the other’s certification, opens market to imports The US and European Commission have reached an agreement that, in recognizing the equivalence of their organic certification programs, will open their markets to each other’s organic products effective...
Paraguay is top supplier of organic sugar imports by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor Small countries tend to get overlooked in discussions about trade, yet they can be important supply sources for specific products. Paraguay is a good example. It’s a very poor,...
FDA testing orange juice import shipments The Wall Street Journal reports that the Food and Drug Administration is testing inbound orange juice shipments at US ports for a fungicide, carbendazim, that has been found in brand-name juice products sold in the States. The...
New HS codes capture trade in organic produce This past year was the first in which specific Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) codes were available to identify incoming shipments to the US of fruits, vegetables, coffee, and grains that are “Certified Organic.” [See By...
Cattle outnumber people more than 3 to 1 in Uruguay by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor Get a group of trade policy junkies together and the first word likely to pop into their minds when they think of Uruguay is “round” – a reference to the Uruguay Round of multilateral...
Planting in the mountains for export markets in US, Europe, Asia The Peruvian government’s Sierra Exportadora agency announced that its demonstration blueberry plantation in Pichupampa should be shipping its first crop next year. The economic development program will...
Chinese honey gets around US and EU trade barriers Honey carries a nature-made “country of origin label:” the pollen picked up by bees as they collect the nectar from which the honey is produced. Indeed, melissopalynologists (honey pollen scientists) can get pretty...
Cultivating what the world wants to eat pays off If you follow FreshPlaza, the portal for global produce news, (and we do) you may have noticed the news on Peruvian agricultural exports is all good. Peru’s export sales of table grapes to newly opened Asian markets are...
Two of Peru’s top ag products find markets in the US See Peru Ramps up Ag Exports.
Cotton and ethanol leap into Brazil’s top 5 imports from the US by Bill Armbruster, blog anchor China has roared past the US to become Brazil’s top trade partner, but the US is still the top exporter to the Latin American giant, and those exports – plus the US surplus...
