Chile celebrates the start of electronic phytosanitary certification with South Korea

Published 2024년 1월 8일

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The ePhyto or Electronic Phytosanitary Certification between Korea and Chile came into effect on January 1, 2024, streamlining trade processes and improving plant health management. The new certification eliminates the need for paper certificates and provides greater security, benefiting the traceability of exports. The implementation of ePhyto is expected to result in significant cost savings for the sector and has been achieved through strong collaboration between the phytosanitary agencies of both countries.

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This January 1, 2024, the ePhyto or Electronic Phytosanitary Certification between Korea and Chile came into effect, allowing both countries to take advantage of all the benefits that the initiative entails to facilitate trade and improve plant health management. “This is great news for our fresh fruit exports to South Korea, because the use of this type of certification will mean savings in time and resources for the public and private sectors. "Chile becomes the first South American country to have the electronic phytosanitary certification approved with South Korea, since this country is working with this system, in addition to Chile, only with Thailand, the European Union and China," said Miguel Canala. -Echeverría, general manager of Frutas de Chile. He added: “With the implementation of ePhytos, the sending of paper certificates to the destination port is eliminated, as well as the loss of documents, reissuance due to changes in ports, importers or others. In addition, these ...

Source: Portaldelcampo