This report summarizes the key technical and import requirements for food and agricultural products imposed by the Government of the Dominican Republic. Due do to the COVID-19 pandemic and a change in Government authorities during 2020, no changes were implemented on technical and import requirements for food and agricultural products.
This report describes the major export certificates required by the Government of the Dominican Republic (DR) for imports of food and agricultural products. No substantive changes were published as of May 2021.
The National Food Safety Authority continues to develop standards and procedures regulating food safety in Egypt. On March 18, 2021, NFSA issued a decision of the Board of Directors No. (1) of the Year 2021 on the Technical Regulations of Microbiological Criteria for Food. The decision was published in the national official gazette on March 31, 2021 and entered into force the day after publication.
As part of the 2020 Japanese Fiscal Year (JFY) third supplementary budget the Agriculture and Livestock Industries Corporation (ALIC) received 17.6 billion yen ($161 million) to operate a COVID-19 countermeasure support program for cattle fattening operations and the dairy and hide processing industries. The funds will be available throughout the JFY2021 fiscal year. The support payments for the dairy industry incentivize Japanese dairy processors to use domestic butter and nonfat dry milk instead of imported products.
This report contains summaries of relevant decisions and documents from the Armenia-Belarus-Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan-Russia Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) meetings, published between November 21, 2020, and July 22, 2021, that impact EAEU food and agriculture policy. Key documents included herein are the EEC Council decision No. 102 delaying entry into force of the EAEU Technical Regulation on Alcohol until January 1, 2022; the EEC Council decision No. 17 radically reducing the number of developing countries that enjoy the 25 percent import tariff discount for exports of some agricultural products to the EAEU under its system of tariff preferences, and a number of EAEU SPS and TBT measures that were notified to the WTO by EAEU members.
The food retail sector in Slovakia is consolidated, price sensitive, and competitive. The Slovak market is experiencing a boom in internet shopping for all food categories. While the Slovak government recently implemented new laws to protect local producers and grocery retailers, there are still good niche opportunities for U.S. high-quality products, such as distilled spirits, frozen fish, dried fruit and nuts, and food preparations.
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