Article: CHINA SETS AGRICULTURAL IMPORT QUOTAS FOR CHINESE COMPANIES.

Article: Pressure mounts on EU to ban all imports of U.S. ...
Food & Drink Weekly;  October 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... that contaminated long-grain rice was imported before the ... Commission must suspend long-grain rice imports from the United ... also called for long-grain rice imports from the United ... EU imported 224,000 tons of rice from the United ...

Article: Cuba Lifts Ban on U.S. Long-Grain Rice
AP Online;  April 28, 2007 ;     504 words ... ... imports of U.S. long-grain rice that it put in place ... has imported 30,000 tons of long-grain U.S ... that American long-grain rice samples had tested positive ... only that U.S. long-grain rice no longer appeared to ...

Article: US long-grain rice industry battling the dangers of ...
The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  March 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... that the popular variety of long-grain rice he was planning to grow had become ... tremors going through the US long-grain rice industry – amplified ... carbon dioxide emissions by 9 million tons. But farmers are increasingly concluding ...

Article: EU panel approves testing for imported U.S. long-grain ...
Food & Drink Weekly;  October 30, 2006 ;     502 words ... ... testing for imported U.S. long-grain rice: As expected, a panel of EU food ... in all imports of U.S. long-grain rice. The Bureau of National Affairs ... Commission, the EU imported 224,000 tons of rice from the United States in ...

Article: Ban on US long-grain rice lifted.(CUBA)
Caribbean Update;  June 1, 2007 ;     384 words ...Cuba has lifted a ban on imports of US long-grain rice that it put in place last year because of fears about genetic ... month and that in recent weeks Cuba has imported 30,000 tons of long-grain US rice and expects to import 10,000 more ...

Article: U.S. rice pleases the palates of Japanese visitors at Summit. ...
PR Newswire;  July 11, 1990 ;     652 words ... ... journalists agreed that the U.S. medium-grain rice was of the same caliber as the rice grown ... U.S. could export as much as 400,000 tons of rice annually to Japan's 9,000,000-ton market. -0- 7/11/90 /CONTACT: Kris ...

Article: Living Review: Food - Against the grain Rice is the ...
The Independent - London;  January 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... moral issue, given that 5 million poorly paid rice farmers in Thailand depend for their existence on annual exports of 200,000 tons of jasmine rice to the US. Actionaid, a British group, describes those who take out patents on crops that grow in poor countries ...