South Korea: Dried ginger from China may be disguised as Vietnamese product

While tariff-free imports of dried and frozen ginger from Vietnam are expected to begin in earnest starting next year, workers and producers in the domestic ginger distribution industry are expressing great concern about the possibility that dried ginger from China will be disguised as Vietnamese and exported to Korea. Chinese dried ginger quickly encroached on the domestic edible ginger market, with imports nearly doubling compared to the previous year, with 1,011.4 tons imported in 2020. However, after illegal low-price reporting was discovered in 2021, imports almost stopped, giving up the top spot to Peruvian products. There is a bar. As suspicions have long been raised in the related industry that Vietnam is being abused as a base for bypassing exports of Chinese agricultural products, it is expected that dried ginger from China will also likely be brought into the country through disguise as the country of origin. In fact, according to the report ‘Survey on the export status ...