Building Food Safety Capacity Worldwide to Facilitate Trade and Improve Public Health Learn more about food safety capacity building efforts in APEC to encourage the use of best practices and science based internationally accepted standards through the APEC Partnership Training Institute Network at fscf-ptin.apec.org. Just announced in November, the Global Food Safety Partnership is working to provide food safety capacity building efforts on a global basis through a public-private fund administered by the World Bank.  More information can be found at http://fscf-ptin.apec.org

Regulatory alignment helps manage risk in APEC wine trade: Review the industry and government presentations from the 2nd meeting of the APEC Wine Regulatory Forum Meeting held in Auckland, NZ from November 5-6 2012.

Learn more about federal funds available in from the 2013 Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) to help your organization help U.S. firms be more competitive through exporting. Learn more about MDCP at trade.gov/mdcp.

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• 2010 Appliance Tables
  • 2010 Appliance Table
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Access proposed changes to foreign regulations with the new Notify U.S. service which offers U.S. entities (citizens, industries, organizations) an opportunity to review and comment on proposed foreign technical regulations that can affect their businesses and their access to international markets.