The import tariff on wheat is set to increase for a second time in 2016, on account of the continued downward trend in global prices and weakening of the rand [...]

The Government of Zambia announced that maize exports of the new 2016 crop, being harvested and expected to be near-average, will only be authorized from the end of September (the [...]

The Government of Lesotho announced last week it will subsidize the price of maize meal, beans and pulses, reducing the retail prices for consumers by 30 percent for a period [...]

The Government of Brazil increased the minimum support price for the 2016 wheat crop. Under this mechanism, if the domestic price of wheat goes below the minimum price, the Government [...]

The Beijing municipal government announced the release of 3 000 tonnes of pork meat from frozen reserves into the capital’s market over two months starting this week and the provision [...]

The Government of Morocco announced that it will maintain the reduced 30 percent import duty on common wheat, set to expire at the end of April, throughout 2016. The tariff [...]

The Government of Brazil has recently removed the import duties on maize shipments from non-Mercosur countries for a period of six months and for a maximum amount of 1 million [...]

The Government of South Africa approved a 34 percent increase in the tariff on wheat imports which will be applied for the rest of 2016. The import duty has been [...]

The Government of China plans to discontinue its maize stock-piling programme at the start of the new marketing season in October. Several years of Government purchases at high minimum support [...]

In late March 2016, the Government of Cambodia announced it will drop the 10 percent value-added tax (VAT) on rice products. The tax is incurred mainly by millers, and thus [...]