Korea Forest Service prepares 'buryaburia', a standard for frozen jujubes made in China

The Korea Forest Service announced on the 5th that it has decided to come up with the criteria for applying the classification of frozen jujubes. The Korea Forest Service came up with a countermeasure by the government as it pointed out that the Chinese frozen jujube imported at low tariffs and distributed domestically and that the frozen jujube does not even have the standard for classification of items . Chinese frozen jujube imports increased more than 30 times in two years from 20.4 tons in 2018 to 653.1 tons last year. Most of the imported Chinese frozen jujubes were dried in Korea and then sold nationwide through the Kyungdong market and online. In particular, the Korea Forest Service explained that the possibility of illegal distribution increased, as a case of false import declaration of Chinese dried jujube (611.5%) as low-tariff frozen jujube (30%) was found at the end of last year. Currently, frozen jujube is not included in the 42 items specified in ...