ITC provides a market news service for medicinal plants
and extracts. This MNS bulletin presents market intelligence for
those products for which current information is not readily
available. The bulletin is published quarterly and provides
information on indicative prices of raw materials and extracts
commonly consumed in North America, Europe, India, China and Japan,
regional demand and supply scenarios including factors influencing
the market, industry news including mergers, acquisitions,
developments and trade fairs, conferences, and industry events. For
subscription, please refer to www.intracen.org. The Dutch Center
for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries, CBI, the
Swiss Import Promotion Programme of the State Secretariat for
Economic Affairs (SECO), SIPPO, and The International Trade Centre
(UNCTAD/WTO), ITC, have published several EU market surveys of
relevance for natural products, including those of natural
ingredients for pharmaceuticals, natural ingredients for cosmetics
as well as for the food industry. The surveys are available at
www.cbi.nl, www.sippo.ch and www.intracen.org respectively. The
Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, publishes "Commodity and
Market Review" and "Food Outlook", www.fao.org Market studies are
carried out for biodiversity products as part of the BioTrade
Facilitation Programme implemented by UNCTAD in co-operation with,
among others, ITC and CBI. Market briefs for selected natural
products are available at www.biotrade.org Other information
sources include Nutrition Business Journal,
www.nutritionbusiness.com/, Nutraceuticals World,
www.nutraceuticalsworld.com/, Natural Foods Merchandiser
www.naturalfoodsmerchandiser.com, World Organics News
http://www.agra-net.com, Alimarket Revista www.alimarket.es and
Euromonitor, www.euromonitor.com. IMS publications can be bought
online and information found at www.open.imshealth.com and at
www.ims-global.com. Market surveys and briefs are also carried out
on selected natural products by various relevant projects and
organizations. |