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FAS
Weekly Attache
Report Digest
Oct 26,
2004
FAS Daily Attache Report
Digest
Mainland China Exporter
Guide
CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF,
October 25, 2004 -- In 2003,
China Customs reported
imports of over $19.6
billion of agricultural and
fisheries products (not
including forest products).
U.S. Customs reports
agricultural and fisheries
exports of roughly $5.19
billion to China. As incomes
continue to rise, imports
are also likely to continue.
Processed and RTE foods
continue to gain ground as
wealthy urban consumers seek
new ways to save time. Beef
and poultry suffered severe
setbacks due to BSE and AI
related trade barriers.
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SOUTH AFRICA, REPUBLIC OF,
October 25, 2004 -- South
Africa's 2004 raisins
production is expected to
increase by 5% from last
year because of increased
area harvested. Thompson
seedless raisins are
expected to increase because
of more than enough moisture
that darkens the sultana
grape varieties. Exports to
the U.S. are not expected to
increase significantly
because of a huge demand for
dried fruit by the EU. About
90% of the total raisin crop
is destined for exports.
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INDIA, October 25, 2004 --
Post forecasts 2005 milk
production to increase by 5
percent to 92 million tons,
assuming a normal monsoon
and continued higher demand
for milk and dairy products.
Easy credit and liberal
licensing policies are
expected to encourage
private investment in the
dairy sector, providing
further impetus to milk
production in coming years.
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CROATIA, October 25, 2004 --
Croatia imports a
significant portion of its
food consumption. The
prospect of EU accession,
the growth in tourism, and
continued economic reform
could make Croatia a
significant long-term
importer of some U.S. food
products, including seafood,
wine, pet food and consumer
food products. Croatian
imports of consumer food
items have almost tripled
from $267 million in 1993 to
$748 million in 2003.
Croatian consumers are
anti-biotech, and U.S. meat
products may not be exported
to Croatia at present.
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FRANCE, October 25, 2004 --
France is a major producer
and exporter of planting
seeds. However, France has a
trade deficit in planting
seeds with the United
States. The leading product
exported by the U.S. to
France is corn for sowing.
The French planting seed
industry, which favors
biotechnology, has been
affected in 2004 by both
French and European factors:
first, the destruction of
many test plots by opponents
to biotechnology; second, a
large number of regional
governments officially
discouraged biotech
planting; and the EU
Commission delayed the
Regulation process to set
thresholds for the
adventitious presence of
biotech in planting seeds.
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CANADA, October 25, 2004 --
Based on six months of
available production data
for 2004, total fluid milk
production for calendar year
2004 is expected to be about
8.00 million metric tons
(MMT), a slight increase
from calendar year 2003
production of 7.78 MMT. For
2005, fluid milk production
is forecast to increase to
8.10 MMT due to higher
expected cows in milk
numbers. As a result of
higher forecast production
of fluid milk, production of
dairy products is expected
to be higher in 2005. In
2003, the United States
continued to be the largest
market for Canadian fluid
milk exports, with almost
62% of Canadian exports
going to the U.S. Based on
eight months of trade data
from Statistics Canada, the
U.S. is expected to replace
New Zealand as Canada's
primary supplier of non-fat
dry milk.
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UKRAINE, October 25, 2004 --
In 2005, Ukraine's dairy
export growth rate to Russia
will decrease. The domestic
industry has problems with
raw milk supplies, value
added tax reimbursements and
inefficiencies of milk
producing enterprises.
Supplies of feed quality
non-fat dried milk will
continue to grow moderately,
assuming unchanged world
market prices. U.S.
exporters will be able to
supply only limited amounts
of specialty dairy products
to the Ukrainian food
processing industry, while
Ukrainian nonfat and whole
milk powder will compete
with U.S. products on the
world market. High import
tariffs will remain an
obstacle to trade of high
value added dairy products.
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MEXICO, October 25, 2004 --
Fluid milk production
continues to increase at a
modest rate and is forecast
at 10.2 MMT in CY 2005.
Mexico imports large volumes
of milk powder to augment
its domestic production.
However, Leche
Industrializada CONASUPO (LICONSA)
the parastatal company
charged with distributing
milk to the poor continues
to increase its usage of
domestically produced fluid
milk, at the expense of
additional imports of
powdered milk. Consequently,
imports of non-fat dry milk
and whole milk powder are
forecast unchanged in CY
2005 at 170,000 MT and
45,000 MT respectively.
Imports of U.S. milk powder
are subject to a tariff-rate
quota that increases three
percent annually. The
tariff-rate quota will be
eliminated on January 1,
2008, in accordance with the
terms of the North American
Free Trade Agreement. The
GOM continues to ban imports
of live cattle following the
December 2004 detection of
Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy (BSE) in a
single cow in Washington
State. Imports of other
dairy products are not
affected by the ban.
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VENEZUELA, October 25, 2004
-- Post is forecasting a
slight recovery of dry milk
production to 26,000 MT for
2005; this is assuming that
the country will continue
enjoying a modest economic
recovery. Also as a
consequence of an oil-driven
economic rebound, dry milk
imports are expected to
increase from 75,000 MT to
90,000 MT in 2005. Imports
have been sourced from the
traditional partners with
New Zealand remaining the
main source. Since 2003, the
Government of Venezuela
emerged as a major importer
of several food products,
including dry milk powder.
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COLOMBIA, October 25, 2004
-- Colombian government
extended the ban on milk
powder imports until
December 2004. Milk powder
production is expected to
increase to 95,000 tons in
2004, while exports will
remain at 25,000 tons.
Colombia is negotiating a
free trade agreement with
U.S. with the goal of
concluding the negotiations
in January 2005.
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CHILE, October 25, 2004 --
Chile's dairy production
this year is expected to
expand. Good weather
conditions improved forage
production and milk
productivity. An increase in
milk prices paid to farmers
due to an increase in export
demand for dairy products is
expected to expand output in
the coming years.
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