On 16 January 2023, the Government of Mexico announced a temporary 50 percent tariff on white maize exports, with effect from 17 January to 30 June 2023, in order to [...]

  On 14 December 2022, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus adopted Resolution 865, providing for a new six-month extension of the embargo on some food products from [...]

On 30 November 2022, the Government of Mozambique approved a reduction in the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate from 17 percent to 16 percent, planned to come into force on [...]

On 5 December 2022, the Ministry of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan set a duty on sunflower seed exports. The measure is intended to promote domestic production of sunflower oil [...]

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation approved a proposal to set an export quota of 25.5 million tonnes on wheat, meslin, rye, barley and maize for countries outside [...]

On 30 September 2022, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Congo announced the exemption of 16 commodities from customs duties and Value Added Tax (VAT) where applicable, [...]

On 3 October 2022, the Government of Mexico announced a voluntary agreement with 16 private sector actors to reduce prices of 24 basic food items by 8 percent by the end [...]

On 23 September 2022, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus adopted Resolution 636, providing for a new six-month extension to the previously introduced temporary ban on the export [...]

On 13 September 2022, the Government of Kazakhstan announced the immediate suspension of wheat and wheat flour export quotas. The restrictions were originally introduced on 14 April until 15 June [...]

On 3 August, the government signed two Decrees (38884-MEIC and 39763 MAG-MEIC-COMEX), eliminating reference prices of rice in wholesale and retail markets, which had been fixed since 2013. In addition, [...]