The Apple Growers Cooperative Association and Apple Association Urge Halt to U.S. Apple Imports

Published 2025년 7월 8일

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The Korea Fruit Cooperative Association and the Korea Apple Association have called for a halt to U.S. apple imports. On the 7th, the associations issued a statement strongly opposing the government's plan to review the import of U.S. apples. In the statement, they criticized media reports that the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy is considering U.S. apple imports as a trade negotiation card, calling it a threat to farmers' right to survive. They urged the withdrawal of the review to ease quarantine requirements for U.S. apples and called for specific measures to protect the domestic apple industry. In particular, apples are a symbolic agricultural product representing Korea.

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The Korea Fruit Growers Cooperative Federation and the Korea Apple Association have urged a halt to U.S. apple imports. The two associations issued a statement on the 7th strongly opposing the government's reported plan to review U.S. apple imports. In the statement, they criticized the potential review as a threat to farmers' survival rights, criticizing media reports that the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy is considering U.S. apple imports as a trade negotiation card. They demanded the withdrawal of the review of U.S. apple quarantine relaxation and the preparation of specific measures to protect the domestic apple industry. In particular, they emphasized that apples are a symbolic agricultural product representing Korea, enjoyed by all age groups, and account for the largest proportion of domestic fruit production, with cultivation areas reaching 23.3% of the country's open-field orchards. They argued that sacrificing Korea's representative fruit for trade purposes ...

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