Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Office of the representative in India and Bhutan, New Delhi has published a manual on regulations, standards and certification for agricultural exports. To assist the stakeholders from the private and public sectors, FAO set out to produce a publication series covering various regions in the world. They have covered Asia also. The manual is aimed at producer organizations, trainers, extension agents and exporters. The manual is aimed at regulations of the main export markets, and major private standards and voluntary certification programmes. The reader is provided with an easy-to-read guide on the main voluntary certification schemes, their importance, the differences between them as well as their advantages and limitations. In order to be able to export their products any producer or exporter must also conform to the regulations of importing countries. The manual therefore provides information concerning the main import regulations in the United States of America, the European Union, Japan and other selected countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The manual prepared by FAO is also available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/ag130e/ag130e00.htm.