MISSOURI’S TRADE WITHColombia

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#4 EXPORT MARKET FOR U.S. CORN

COLOMBIA IS THE THE COLOMBIA SUGAR MILLER’S ASSOCIATIONMAINTAINS A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT, AND POLICIES ARE SET TO PROTECT LOCAL BIOFUELS PRODUCTION.

COLOMBIA IS THE WORLD’S 3RD LARGEST PRODUCER OF COFFEEColombia is responsible for 8% of the world’s coffee.

COLOMBIA’S TOP TRADE PARTNERS

All processed retail food items must be registered and approved by the Colombia National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute (INVIMA). Products excluded from this are products that are not subject to transformation or used as raw materials by the food industry or food preparation sector (i.e. honey).

U.S. meat and poultry products are import eligible only if they have packaging origin from any USDA federally inspected establishment that is listed in the USDA FSIS Meat and Poultry Inspection Directory.

Colombia has trade agreements with the Central American Northern Triangle (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras), Canada, the European Union, the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Mexico and Peru) and the European Free Trade Association countries (Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland).

In May of 2012, the U.S. and Colombia implemented the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement. This agreement eliminated tariffs on 80% of U.S. exports of consumer and industrial products with remaining tariffs to be phased out over the following 10 years.

Missouri has a $750 million trade agreement with Colombia to facilitate the expansion of bilateral trade and investment in key industries.

Opportunities• Colombia’s agricultural sector is expected to

grow 2.4% in 2018 primarily driven by poultry, eggs and swine. Colombian buyers continue to look to foreign suppliers to satisfy the feed sector market needs with grains and oilseeds.

• In FY 2017, the United States replaced Chile as the lead supplier of consumer oriented products to Colombia with a 12% increase to $573 million.

• Colombia has experienced income adjustments that have shifted diets from vegetable to animal proteins resulting in poultry consumption almost doubling in the last 10 years.

• Colombia’s emerging niche market is alcoholic beverages with sophisticated flavors. Wine sales continue to grow in conjunction with shifts in income and urbanization.

PANAMA 7.1%

CHINA 5.3%

NETHERLANDS 4.1%

MEXICO 4.1%

U.S. 29.1%

EXPORTING TOColombia

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TOP 10 UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS TO COLOMBIA

TOP 10 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS TO COLOMBIA

COLOMBIA RANKED #12IN 2017 AMONG U.S. AGRICULTURAL EXPORT MARKETS

1 2 3 4 5 6THOUSANDS

FEEDS & FODDERS NESOI$5,277

DAIRY PRODUCTS$978

PORK & PORK PRODUCTS$685

DOG & CAT FOOD$621

POULTRY MEAT & PRODUCTS$551

CORN$421

VEGETABLE OILS NESOI$329

CHOCOLATE & COCOA PRODUCTS$257

PROCESSED FRUIT$162

ESSENTIAL OILS$120

100 500200 600300 700400 800THOUSANDS

CORN$781,439

SOYBEAN MEAL$339,847

SOYBEANS$211,890

WHEAT$173,052

PORK & PORK PRODUCTS$163,247

FEEDS & FODDERS NESOI$79,573

OTHER INTERMEDIATE PRODUCTS$76,978

SOYBEAN OIL$73,016

POULTRY MEAT & PRODUCTS$70,260

DAIRY PRODUCTS$65,147

Source: USDA 2017 GATSSource: USDA 2017 GATS

$2.5 BILLIONTHE TOTAL VALUE OF EXPORTS TO COLOMBIA FROM THE U.S. IN 2017