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Table World Trade in Selected Food Products

It highlights trade opportunities in specific products and locations, Table World trade in selected food products

(b) The National Programme for Prevention of Food related Diseases monitors products of mass consumption, public places, distribution networks and public eating facilities, food additives and major pollutants, with a view to preventing illnesses connected with the quality of food products, in particular food poisoning

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations list of agricultural products

Food products also seem to be disproportionately represented in the cases described above.

Time worked at SMIG and SMAG required for the purchase of certain food products

Machinery, food products and chemicals are the sectors in which NTB complaints are most prevalent.

The main industries are textiles, food processing, beverages, construction materials, clothing, paper products, and shrimp.

The same trend applies to other widely consumed local basic food products, such as garri.

The sector is dominated in terms of turnover by food retailing and consumer care products.

The interventions build on commodities and the related secondary agro processing industries with emphasis on food (e.g. fish, meat, dairy, vegetable oils) and non food (wood and non wood forest products, textiles and garments, leather and skins) products.

Sanitary and phytosanitary regulations in major developed countries prevent the importation of such products as beef, chicken and other meat products, groundnuts and many food industry products from several developing countries with export potential.

Imports from developing countries are absent over wide ranges of food industry products and sometimes even for their major agricultural export products in individual major markets.

High MFN rates for these staple food products are often combined with country specific special measures.

410. Seasonal shortage of food is most of all felt in respect to fruit and fruit products (51.3 per cent), vegetables and vegetable products (38.0 per cent) and, in every fourth household, meat and poultry, meat products and fish and fish products.

Most enterprises have been established in the traditional sectors, such as food products, beverages, textiles and leather products, simple processing (for example, industrial chemicals) and assembly activities.

Japan grants duty free treatment to LDCs for a substantial range of agricultural and food industry products.

4. Whilst one of the principal focuses was on the expansion of trade in processed food products, which could provide new export opportunities for developing countries, it was recognized that the domestic market also constituted a source of demand for processed food products.

Radiological and toxicological analyses of food products were not carried out in previous years due to inadequate equipment.

There are requirements concerning the harmlessness of food products, including mineral water, genetically modified organisms, alcoholic beverages, etc.

In this respect, ACP concerns included the following issues longstanding preferences, special products, a tariff reduction formula with the necessary flexibility, the designation of products traded under longstanding preferences as sensitive products, the SSM, duty free and quota free access for LDCs, issues relating to food security, food aid, SDT in respect of STEs and export credits, and implementation of the Marrakech Decision on the net food importing developing countries (NFIDCs).

The United States market has been particularly innovative in inventing fast food processed fish products such as the salmon burger, a low fat hamburger containing seaweed, and other fish products.

In order to make the products of the food processing industries competitive on the world market, UNIDO will provide assistance in food safety and quality through specifically designed projects targeting the deficiencies of individual food industry subsectors.

In addition to sensitive products, developing countries would have flexibilities to designate as special products for special treatment tariff lines that are essential for promoting food and livelihood security and rural development.

Recent regulations and private sector standards in the food sector present new challenges for developing country exporters of horticultural products.

Continued demand for consumer convenience in the preparation of food will stimulate interest in, and demand for, frozen products, and associated products such as boil in the bag, microwave ready, and chilled foods.

In the EU, for example, the General Principles and Requirements of Food Law (EC R 178 02) include provisions on the traceability of all food products as of 1 January 2005.

In Japan, the Food Sanitation Law, often referred to as the Japan Agriculture Standards (JAS), seeks to ensure the safety of goods and sets minimum quality requirements for food agricultural, fishery and forestry products, and regulates the use of food additives.

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 543 II on the quality and safety of food products, of 8 April 2004

According to preliminary indications there seems to be little trade exceeding the tariff quota levels in agricultural and food industry products.

With more income at their disposal, people begin to consume more of their food basket in the form of animal products. Producing these animal products requires significantly more agricultural resources than a predominantly plant based diet.

Other changing demand characteristics that have implications for meat processing companies are the shift to products with lower fat and salt content, and to more quot natural quot products, as consumer concerns increase about food safety.

How can market entry barriers resulting from regulations on, for example, food and consumer safety be minimized for novel' products derived from biodiversity?

On the other hand, the peak tariffs on numerous fishery and food industry products do not, by and large, exceed 30 per cent.

Subsequently, Thailand, with support from FAO, introduced the HACCP system for fisheries products, and was now expanding its application to other food sectors.

The share of processed products in total OECD food imports increased from 23 per cent (1980 82) to 29 per cent (1990 92).

For example, this is the case for bovine meat, sheep and goat and other meat and meat products major cereals, such as rice, wheat and rye as well as for several fruit, vegetable and food industry products.

His delegation welcomed the renewed focus on the use of fresh water resources for food and agricultural production and the analysis of the impact of the Uruguay Round on food production, including agro industrial products.

Major gaps in the liberalization of imports from least developed countries include the generally high tariffs on many sensitive agricultural products, as well as on agricultural imports that exceed tariff quotas and on several food industry products.46

Thus far, some 25 million in assistance, including food aid, medicine and other products have been transported aboard Qatari aircraft to the affected countries.

The majority of UNIDO sponsored women entrepreneurship programmes were being implemented in Africa, with an emphasis on the food sector, textiles and leather products.

SMEs are visible in low technology intensive industries (food products, textiles and paper) and in high technology intensive industries (pharmaceuticals, office machinery and communications).

However, partial data covering earlier periods seem to indicate, for some product groups, a faster growth rate in the trade of processed food products.