Garlic producers warn of fraudulent entry of frozen Chinese garlic into the EU

The National Garlic Table has denounced the alleged fraudulent entry of frozen garlic from China into the European Union, which causes Chinese garlic to enter the EU at a lower price and, thus, limits the sale of Spanish garlic to profitable prices for producers. This was announced this Tuesday by the members of the National Garlic Table during the celebration of its General Assembly in Las Pedroñeras (Cuenca), where they have made public the results of the report prepared by the organization on the alleged irregularities in imports of frozen garlic from China into Europe. The reason for the irregularity, as explained by the president of the National Garlic Table, Julio Bacete, in a press release, is based on the fact that this supposed frozen garlic is refrigerated garlic, which is transported at temperatures of -4ºC, when frozen garlic must go to -20ºC. These products belong to different tariff classifications, so they are The alleged fraudulent garlic is introduced "out of ...