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Since Burma initiated a series of political and economic reforms in 2011, U.S. agricultural exports have grown over 80-fold, reaching a record $174 million in 2019 and $167 million in 2020.

In January 2021, Burma’s rice exports are forecast to decrease overall due to high domestic prices and since the Chinese government has not yet issued 2021 import permits for head rice.

South Asia, which includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, accounts for 24 percent of the world’s population, with 1.84 billion people in 2019.

France bans the cultivation of crops that are derived from modern biotechnology and limits research into their use.

Burma (also called Myanmar) is one of the last untapped markets with one of the fastest growing economies in Asia.

France imported $1.38 billion of food and agricultural products from the United States in 2019.

France, as a member of the European Union (EU), generally follows EU directives, regulations, and obligations.

France as a member of the European Union (EU-27) has implemented EU regulations for the import of animal and plant products.

This report lists the major certificates required by the Burmese government agencies for U.S agricultural products exported to Burma.

Burma is in the process of updating many of its laws and regulations that affect the importation of agricultural products.

The French Government announced this week that ducks on two farms in southwestern France were infected with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).

In October 2020, the Ministry of Commerce published notification 68/2020, which reduced the number of tariff lines that require an import license.