Trade

Chile and South Korea have recently restarted negotiations to upgrade the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), signed in 2003. As of now, several Chilean citrus products are not included under [...]

On April 28, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation (ACF), a medium and heavy-duty zero-emission fleet regulation. The goal of this regulation is to [...]

Left to Right: Boomer Murray, Matt Fisher, Lisa Tate, Diane Guinn, Jacob Villagomez, Ariana Joven, Jared Plumlee, Julia Inestroza, Casey Creamer, Joe Shea (Governor’s Deputy Cabinet Secretary), [...]

California Citrus Mutual is excited to launch a new citrus import dashboard that is now available on our website.  The new dashboard tracks imports of lemons, oranges, grapefruit, clementines and [...]

Last week CCM President Casey Creamer, Director of Governmental Affairs Jacob Villagomez and Board Chairman Jared Plumlee traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with USDA and members of Congress to [...]

Yesterday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released President Biden’s 2023 Trade policy Agenda and 2022 Annual Report to Congress. The report details USTR’s work to [...]

Argentina’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries announced that the country has been authorized to send test shipments at the beginning of their citrus export season to India (in [...]

On January 26, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its biannual Citrus: World Markets and Trade report. Oranges, tangerines/mandarins, grapefruit, and lemons/limes are all forecast [...]

APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment for the importation of fresh Orange and Tangerine for consumption from Egypt into the U.S. The assessment describes potential pests associated with the [...]

Over December, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) published several Citrus Annual Reports.  Chile  Lemons/Limes: FAS forecasts that lemon acreage in marketing [...]