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photo - SpainSpain Looking for the Right Ingredients
Spain's food processing industry is the fifth largest in the European Union, creating opportunities for U.S. supplies to sell both raw materials and ingredients in this market.photo - Portugal

Portugal's Marketplace Prospering
Handshakes still seal deals in Portugal, where some traditional practices coexist with modern sales techniques.

photo - beach sceneIndonesia's Blossoming Food Processing Industry
With an expected annual growth rate of 8 percent over the next five years, Indonesia's $10 billion food and beverage processing industry is the harbinger of a developing marketplace.

Czech Republic Republic HRI Turns on Tourism
photo - Czech Republic

Already a top tourist destination, the Czech Republic expects more upscale growth in its food service sector after accession to the European Union in 2004.

 

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  March 2004
  Volume XVI, No. 3

  Published by
  U.S. Department of Agriculture
  Foreign Agricultural Service

  Editor
  Priscilla B. Glynn
  

  Writers
 
Harold Kanarek   
  Mary Rekas
  Donald Washington
   
   

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