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U -- TRAINING POC Michelle Calhoun (202) 205-2835. Farm Services Agency (FSA), in support of the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), will conduct a series of Importer Training Workships for potential importers of U.S. food products in the Russian Far East and Urals over the next three years. We are seeking expressions of interests and possible participation by companies, banks, universities, governmental and non-governmental organizations with expertise and experience in these regions. Topics to be covered may include but are not limited to financing, grades and standards, sources of supply, transportation, marketing, customs procedures and export certification procedures. The first workshop planned for October 1996 in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, will cover financing (0205)

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