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The Thai Food and Drug Administration (Thai FDA) issued its annual revision to its pesticide residue monitoring program for fresh produce. The protocol remains the same in practice; however, the fresh produce that are considered “high risk” have...

In 2020, Chile regained its position as the top market for U.S. consumer-oriented products in South America, followed by Colombia and Peru.

This report highlights certification requirements for food and agricultural products exported to Canada and supplements the FAIRS Country Report CA2021-0038.

The 2016 changes to nutrition labelling requirements come into force in December 2021, with enforcement discretion extended to December 2023. Other regulatory initiatives (like Front of Package Labeling) continue to be on hold.

In the first quarter of 2021, U.S. soybean exports reached the second-highest value ever at $7.7 billion, nearly double the same period last year.

Canada is the largest overseas market for U.S. high-value, consumer-oriented products, with exports reaching nearly $17 billion in 2020 – representing 25 percent of the total value of U.S. consumer-oriented exports worldwide, more than doubling the value of the next largest market.

Peru’s food retail market is adapting to the economic hardships and realities arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Canada is the top export market for U.S. wines by value, and Ontario’s provincial liquor board is among the largest purchasers of beverage alcohol on the planet.

Quebec is the largest wine-importing province in Canada, at 180 million liters of wine valued at $770 million in 2020.

The extension for imports of organic raw materials entering Mexico to comply with the Organic Products Law (LPO) is official policy as of June 16, 2021.

In 2021, Colombia's fuel ethanol production is estimated to decrease to 370 million liters in response to a lower blend mandate despite partial recovery in the fuel pool.

This report serves as an alert to U.S. exporters of raw bovine skins and hides of an update to Mexico’s import requirement sheet (HRZ by its Spanish acronym) for those products.