Markets and Trade

Commodity policy developments

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Policy Category
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Area
Commodity Group
Commodity
Date
Policy Category
Policy Instrument
Description
Mexico
Meat
Poultry meat
2014.07
Trade
Tariff rate quota
Announced a duty-free import quota of 300 000 tonnes for 2014, covering fresh, chilled or frozen [...]
Switzerland
Meat
Pig meat
2014.07
Trade
Import ban
Banned pig meat and live imports from Bulgaria, Romania and some parts of Latvia and [...]
Panama
Rice
All
2014.07
Consumption and marketing
Price controls
Set maximum retail prices for twenty-two basic food products for a period of six months, [...]
Panama
Rice
All
2014.07
Consumption and marketing
Price controls
Decided to extend a Balboa 0.08 (USD 0.08) per pound subsidy to rice processors to [...]
India
Rice
All
2014.07
Production
Government procurement
Instructed state governments to reduce quantities procured from millers under statutory levy during the 2014/15 [...]
Philippines
Rice
All
2014.06
Consumption and marketing
Food subsidies
Approved a set of measures to temper increases in domestic rice quotations. Further to importing [...]
Philippines
Rice
All
2014.06
Trade
Import quota
Announced that as a repeat order of rice purchased through the 15 April tender, the [...]
India
Rice
All
2014.06
Consumption and marketing
Food subsidies
Postponed the deadline for States and Union Territories to implement the National Food Security Act, [...]
Pakistan
Rice
All
2014.06
Trade
Finance and Credit Facilities
Extended coverage of the Export Refinance Scheme to exports of broken rice in retail packets [...]
China (Mainland)
Rice
All
2014.06
Stocks
Stock-holding policy, Government procurement
Announced that it would raise state grain reserves by 25 million tonnes, maintaining the equivalent [...]

Disclaimer: The policy records included in the tool are based on publicly available information from both official and private sources. While efforts have been made to verify its content, FAO does not guarantee the full accuracy or comprehensiveness of the information and recommends to consult / refer to other FAO publications reporting policy developments, especially the Oilcrops Monthly Price and Policy Update, the Monthly News Report on Grains and the FAO Rice Market Monitor. The frequency of updates may differ across commodities.