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This report identifies Ecuador’s import requirements for foreign export certificates, highlighting current procedures and identifying the relevant local agencies with oversight over these issues.

Despite slower growth forecast for 2016 and measures to restrict imports, Ecuador offers U.S. food and agricultural product exporters a number of trade possibilities.

The food processing industry is a huge component of Ecuador’s manufacturing sector, grossing $5.3 billion in 2015.

This report outlines Ecuador’s requirements for food and agricultural product imports. The major changes from the previous 2015 report are related to the Sanitary Notification...

In October 2016, Ecuador's Ministries of Agriculture and Industries announced that the National Institute for Agricultural Research INIAP will start field trials of GE corn with research purposes..

FAS Quito coordinated and supported the April 18, 2016 visit to Ecuador of University of Georgia (UGA) rural extension service specialists.

Ecuador’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries on May 26, 2016, issued Resolution 114/2016.

FAS office in Ecuador provided support for three workshops on the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food products held on September 28, 29 and 30, 2015.

Ecuador’s coffee production in MY 2016/17 is forecast at 201,000 bags (60-kg per bag) on a Green Bean Equivalent basis, down 16,000 bags or seven percent lower from the MY 2015/16 estimate.

Ecuador’s sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2015/16 is estimated at 576,000 metric tons (MT), down 49,000 MT or over seven percent lower than in MY 2014/15.

Ecuador’s wheat production in marketing year (MY) 2016/17 (July-June) is forecast to reach 4,000 metric tons (MT), down about 1,000 MT from the MY 2015/16 estimate.

Following Ecuador’s Ministry of Agriculture’s successful import in May 2015 of U.S.-origin live cattle, a follow-up shipment of high-quality U.S. animals arrived in Quito on December 19.