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What's New - October 2008

Brazil’s Soybean Export Growth Limited by Expanding Domestic Use (10/10/08; .pdf)

Global Import Demand Shifts from Coarse Grains to Wheat (10/10/08; .pdf)

USDA Defends Its Biofuels Policy (USDA Radio News; 10/08/08 - real, mp3, wave)
— USDA and DOE Release National Biofuels Action Plan (10/07/08)
— FACT SHEET: National Biofuels Action Plan (10/07/08)
— Secretaries Schafer and Bodman Announce National Biofuels Action Plan (Transcript; View Video; 10/07/08)
— More about biofuels and U.S. agricultural trade

USDA Advisors Help Rebuild Iraqi Irrigation (USDA Video; 09/24/08)

USDA Announces $3.5 Billion in Credit Guarantees for Fiscal Year 2009 (09/30/08)

USDA Announces $234 Million to Promote U.S. Food and Agricultural Products Overseas (09/30/08)
— USDA Programs Promote Us Agricultural Goods Overseas (USDA Radio News; 10/03/08 - real, mp3, wave)

Featured Reports
10/10 Global Import Demand Shifts from Coarse Grains to Wheat (.pdf)
10/10 Brazil: Summer-Corn Area Forecast to Decrease (.pdf)
10/10 Brazil’s Soybean Export Growth Limited by Expanding Domestic Use (.pdf)

World Production, Market and Trade Reports
10/10 Sugar Monthly Import and Re-Export Data Report
10/10 Grains: World Markets and Trade
10/10 World Agricultural Production
10/10 Cotton: World Markets and Trade
10/10 Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
09/30 U.S. Planting Seed Trade

2008 Release Dates

Export Regulations
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Federal Register Notices

09/16/08 The Dairy Import Licensing Program - Final Rule
09/03/08 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Emerging Markets
09/03/08 Assessment of Fees for Dairy Import Licenses for the 2009 Tariff-Rate Import Quota Year
08/29/08 Adjustment of Appendices to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Regulation for the 2008 Tariff-Rate Quota Year
07/17/08 Edward R. Madigan United States Agricultural Export Excellence Board of Evaluators: Nomination
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Emerging Markets Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Market Access Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Quality Samples Program
05/07/08 Notice of a New System of Records: Dairy Accelerated Importer Retrieval and Information Exchange System (DAIRIES) to administer the Dairy Import Licensing Program
04/02/08 Notice of product coverage and trigger levels for safeguard measures provided for in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture
04/01/08 Notice of Request for New Information Collection on Genetic Resources for U.S. Food and Agriculture
01/24/08 Inviting Applications for the Emerging Markets Program
Export Sales

Archival export sales reports are available from 1998 to the present. -- The Export Sales Reporting Program: The Early Alert System for U.S. Exporters (brochure)

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