China lifts ban on Taiwanese grouper fish imports

BEIJING (Reuters) -China will resume importing grouper fish from Taiwan from Friday, the Chinese government announced, a day after angering Taipei with the ending of tariff cuts on some chemical imports less than a month before Taiwanese elections. China put the grouper ban in place in June of last year saying it had detected banned chemicals, an accusation Taiwan denied, as part of a broader ban on Taiwanese food imports that infuriated the government of the Chinese-claimed island. China's Taiwan Affairs Office said Taiwanese industry representatives had visited China and provided "rectification" information, so now approved companies can resume grouper exports. "We are willing to work together with relevant parties on the island to continue to provide assistance for the resumption of the import of Taiwan's agricultural and fishing products into the mainland," it said in a statement carried by China's official Xinhua news agency. However, Taiwan's agriculture ministry said China ...