Taiwan's agriculture council at WTO says China lacks transparency in trade regulations

Published 2022년 12월 13일

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The agriculture council at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has called out China's unjustified trade restrictions on fruits from Taiwan and lack of transparency in trading regulations. Despite Taiwan's compliance with international trade norms and improvements in packaging processes, China continues to ban imports of pineapples, custard apples, wax apples, and citrus fruits from Taiwan. Despite multiple requests for explanations, China has remained unresponsive. This issue is among nine trade concerns raised by Taiwan, Canada, Australia, the United States, Japan, and the European Union at the WTO since 2020. The agriculture council insists that trade regulations should be based on unbiased, factual data rather than political motivations.

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The agriculture council said on Tuesday it has brought up the issue of China’s lack of transparency in trading regulations at regular committee meetings at the WTO. China continues to ban the import of pineapples, custard apples, wax apples and citrus fruits from Taiwan. Some of the bans have lasted over a year. Taiwan has urged China to provide reports for the ban according to international trade regulations but received no official response from China. The council says it has already improved fruit packaging related processes that China cites as their reason for the ban. The council has also made multiple attempts for further discussions with China but again received no response. The council further points out Taiwan has raised specific trade concerns on China nine times so far. That's since the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade regular meeting in 2020. Taiwan, along with Canada, Australia, the United States, Japan, and the European Union have ...

Source: Rti