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FAS
Weekly Attache Report Digest
January
27, 2005
Weekly Highlights and Hot Bites, Issue # 2
MEXICO, January 27, 2005 -- No summary available.
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Wholesale Markets and Price Reporting
CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF, January 27, 2005 -- This report
summarizes how China's Ministry of Agriculture gathers,
uses, and publishes wholesale commodity prices. FAS China
began a database to analyze these reported prices in order
to publish periodic commodity specific reports. The prices
provide a reference for what growers and farmers could
receive and what smaller volume wholesalers may procure. A
sample of available reporting information is included along
with two appendices listing the markets and commodities in
the database to date.
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Russia Prohibits Several Food Additives
RUSSIAN FEDERATION, January 27, 2005 -- Russia has
prohibited imports of food products processed with two
additives, E216 and E217, and will not allow their use in
the domestic food industry starting March 1, 2005.
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2005 Tariff Schedule
TURKEY, January 27, 2005 -- Turkey's 2005 Tariff Schedule
was published in the Official Gazette on December 31, 2004
and became affective on January 1, 2005. Most duty rates
remained the same as the last year's rates. Duty rates for
wheat, corn, and sorghum were raised while they were reduced
for crude soybean, sunflower, cotton, and corn oils in 2005.
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BSE in Germany - Update Covering 2004
GERMANY, January 27, 2005 -- In 2004, 65 cases of BSE were
confirmed in Germany, compared to 54 in 2003, and 106 in
2002. Until January 19, 2005, one additional case was
confirmed, taking the number of confirmed BSE cases since
the first detection of BSE in Germany in November 2000, to a
total of 358. In Germany all cattle older than 24 month at
slaughter have to be tested for BSE, compared to 30 months
in the EU. The ongoing discussion about testing age will
likely result in a change to 30 months in the second half of
2005.
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Annual
SOUTH AFRICA, REPUBLIC OF, January 27, 2005 -- South
Africa's 2005 total avocado production is projected to
increase 21% from 70,000 MT in 2004, if the weather
conditions improve. Exports will increase 27% from 30,000 MT
of last year. Europe will remain South Africa's major export
market. Locally, growers are expected to improve their GAP
practices, based on the new regulation that will be
implemented on January 01, 2005. Lastly, the industry
expects to expand exports to the U.S. market.
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Mariann Fischer Boel's View on EU Agriculture
Policy and the Doha Round
GERMANY, January 27, 2005 -- In her January 25 speech and
responses to questions from a predominately EU audience
during Berlin's Green Week, EU Ag Minister Fischer Boel
presented her view of EU ag policy reform and the WTO Doha
Round negotiations. She emphasized that the EU's agreement
to eliminate export subsidies must be matched by other
countries, and that the Green Box must be preserved as is.
She stated that the EU had already reformed its agricultural
supports and now other countries must come forward.
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Cheese and Dairy Products Brief
CHILE, January 27, 2005 -- No summary available.
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