South Korea's Forest Service to prepare in May the classification of frozen jujube from China

The Forest Service announced on the 5th that it has decided to come up with the criteria for applying the classification of frozen jujubes. The Korea Forest Service has taken measures according to the government's countermeasures as it pointed out that China-made frozen jujube imported at low tariffs and distributed domestically, and that the frozen jujube does not even have a standard for classification of items This is what came up. Chinese frozen jujube imported from 20.4 tons in 2018 to 653.1 tons last year, an increase of nearly 30 times in two years. Most of the imported Chinese frozen jujubes were dried in Korea and then sold nationwide through the Kyungdong market and online. In particular, the Korea Forest Service explained that the possibility of illegal distribution increased, as a case of false import declaration of Chinese dried jujube (611.5%) as frozen jujube (30%) with low tariff was found at the end of last year. Currently, frozen jujube is not included in the 42 ...