Morocco: Flour Fortification Requirements
This report contains an unofficial translation of Morocco’s requirements on flour fortification. Common wheat flour, with the exception of whole wheat flour must be fortified with an iron-vitamin compound, consisting of elemental iron, folic acid, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and vitamin PP. Packaging must be provided with a label indicating the term "fortified flour," the representative logo for fortified food products, and indicate the country of origin. No therapeutic indications can be made on the label. This trade measure has not been notified to the WTO. In 2018, the U.S.-Morocco FTA process firstcome, first-serve market access for 1,903 MT of U.S. common wheat products (e.g., flour, groats, etc.), which increases two percent annually. Morocco imports 250 MT annually of common wheat products from the EU, Oman, China, and Lebanon, but has yet to import any such products from the United States since the FTA’s implementation in 2006.
