South Korea: Jeonnam Agricultural and Fishery Foods Enters European Amazon Online

Published 2021년 2월 26일

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Jeonnam-do in South Korea has started exporting nine agricultural and fishery food products to the European Union (EU) through Amazon's online platform, following a shipment to the US earlier in the year. The products, including seaweed, sweet potato processed foods, dried fish snacks, onion juice, citron tea, and organic shiitake mushrooms, were selected for their compliance with the EU's strict food safety regulations. The province has also been approved for the trademark 'Jeollanamdo, The Kitchen of Korea' by the EU Patent Office. Additionally, Jeonnam Province and nine export companies have obtained 'certified exporters of origin' status to receive non-tariff benefits under the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement.

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(Jangseong = Yonhap News) Reporter Woonchang Yeo = Jeonnam-do held an export shipment ceremony to enter the European Union (EU) market with nine agricultural and fishery food exporters at the aT Jangseong stockpile on the 26th. This is the second time since this year's shipment of products for sale on Amazon (US$246,000) on the 9th of this month, and is the first export to an online shopping mall in the EU. For EU exports, the most popular products were selected among 68 products currently being sold at Amazon's Jeonnam Brand Pavilion. It is a product worth $117,000 in 15 items including seaweed such as seaweed, sweet potato processed foods, dried fish snacks, onion juice, citron tea, and organic shiitake mushrooms that do not have any problems with the EU's strict food customs regulations. Shipped products are delivered through the port of Hamburg, Germany, and then sold to 27 countries across the EU through Amazon's online sales network in four countries, including Germany, ...

Source: Yna