Chile: Protocol signed to expand fruit species exported to China to 17

By Redacción PortalPortuario.cl, @PortalPortuario, A milestone for the agro-export sector was achieved with the signing of the frozen fruit protocol between Chile and China, which will allow the species authorized to enter that country to be expanded from 3 to 17. This was explained by the Minister of Agriculture, María Emilia Undurraga, who led the signing together with the Chinese Ambassador to Chile Niu Qingbao; the undersecretary of International Economic Relations, Rodrigo Yáñez; the National Director of the Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG), Horacio Bórquez; the deputy director of the Office of Agrarian Studies and Policies (ODEPA), Adolfo Ochagavía; and the general manager of Chilealimentos, Guillermo González., This agreement will allow bilateral trade with China to generate greater opportunities from the perspective of small and medium fruit producers, since the sanitary opening is established for 14 new species of frozen fruits. These are, raspberry, boysenberry, ...