Insights and Stories on Imports

Morocco gives millers incentives to use domestic wheat

May. 11, 2018 at 4:59 pm CDT

Rabat | Reuters — Morocco on Friday announced a set of incentives for local millers to opt for domestic wheat instead of imports. They include a flat rate subsidy of 10 dirhams (C$1.37) per 100 kilograms of soft wheat to millers using local wheat, the ministry of agriculture said in […]

Algeria to open farming concessions to foreigners

May. 7, 2018 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Hamid Ould Ahmed

China customs expanding checks on U.S. fruit imports

May. 4, 2018 at 7:57 pm CDT

By Karl Plume Yawen Chen

U.S. ethanol makers snap up cheap sorghum after China tariffs

May. 2, 2018 at 4:17 am CDT

By Michael Hirtzer Tom Polansek

India imposes duties on chickpeas, lentils

Dec. 21, 2017 at 11:53 am CST

By MarketsFarm Team

Eggplant value chain project replaces most imports

May. 17, 2017 at 4:13 pm CDT

Canadian-grown eggplant and okra have replaced about 800,000 kg of imports over the past several years, creating a research-to-grower-to-market success story. The Vineland Research and Innovation Centre has played a central role helping with research and bringing together the parts of the industry needed to create a food chain success. […]

By John Greig

B.C. greenhouse peppers cleared for Japan

Sep. 30, 2016 at 8:50 pm CDT

Canada and Japan have agreed on import conditions by which British Columbia’s produce growers will be able to ship greenhouse peppers to Japan. The agreement, effective immediately, means the province’s growers “could be looking at up to $20 million worth of pepper exports a year to Japan once the agreement […]

By Staff

Ottawa weighs options over U.S. milk proteins

Jun. 7, 2016 at 5:18 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada is working on a plan to shore up its sheltered dairy industry, including measures to counter fast-rising imports of milk proteins from the U.S., according to the federal agriculture minister. Any new support risks widening a trade dispute among North America’s dairy farmers over $150 […]

By Rod Nickel

Russian PM says can change list of banned imports

Jun. 25, 2015 at 4:52 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters –– A list of Western products that Russia has banned could be changed according to the state of relations with the European Union and other countries, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. Medvedev told a government meeting he had approved an order, initiated by President […]

By Reuters

Russia may consider lifting food ban from Greece, Hungary, Cyprus

Apr. 7, 2015 at 6:31 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — The Russian government could consider removing Greece, Hungary and Cyprus from its ban on most Western food imports, Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov was quoted as saying Tuesday. Russia’s ban, which should run until early August, was imposed in retaliation to Western sanctions on Russia over […]