WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2019 – Due to the recent lapse in federal funding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has not published a weekly export sales report since December 20, 2018. FAS has resumed daily reporting of export sales and will implement the following schedule to bring weekly reporting up to date:
The regular reporting schedule will resume for the week ending February 22, 2019. Additional information about the Export Sales Reporting Program is available at https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/export-sales-reporting-program. |
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