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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. Consumers are especially interested in healthier, more convenient, nutritious, and high-quality products.

There are new export opportunities for oysters grown in Massachusetts and Washington since the EU lifted its import ban on live, chilled, frozen, and processed bivalve mollusks from the United States. As part of the equivalency arrangement between the EU and the United States, the U.S. market will now also be open for Dutch oysters, creating a win-win.

The Netherlands is increasingly becoming one of Europe’s leading importers and exporters of seafood products. The United States was the Netherlands’ 15th largest foreign supplier of seafood in 2021. U.S. exports were dominated by frozen Alaskan Pollock (AP) which represented two-thirds of U.S. seafood trade to the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is one of Europe’s leading importers and exporters of seafood products.

On February 21, 2020, Russia notified the WTO of draft EAEU requirements for imported gastropod mollusks and the corresponding form of a unified EAEU veterinary certificate via G/SPS/N/RUS/180.

On June 24, 2019, President Putin signed decree No. 293 extending Russia’s ban on the import of agricultural products from the countries that applied economic sanctions against Russia....

The Netherlands is increasingly becoming one of Europe’s leading importers and exporters of seafood products.

The Technical Regulation of the Russia-Kazakhstan-Belarus-Kyrgyzstan-Armenia Customs Union (CU) “On Safety of Fish and Fish Products” (TR TS 040/2016) is a key CU regulation covering standards....

Russian Ministry of Agriculture Calls for Refocus from Import Substitution to Export Development…Ministry of Agriculture Supports Construction of Export/Import Agrologistic Hub....

GOR Approves Development Strategy of the Russian Export Center… GOR Approved National Report on Quarantine and Phytosanitary Status in Russia…

This report contains summaries of relevant decisions and documents from the Russia-Kazakhstan-Belarus Customs Union (CU) meetings, that impact CU food and agriculture policy.

Grain Stocks on April 1, 2017 are 32.0 MMT… Summary of Russian Agriculture Subsidy Expenditures in 2016… GOR Distributes Subsidies for Purchasing of Agricultural Equipment…