Due to Japan's strict new standards for chemical residues,
China's exports of farm produce to Japan fell 18 percent from the
same month last year to US$569 million.
The Shanghai Securities News made the report Tuesday on the
basis of latest figures provided by the Chinese Ministry of
Agriculture.
Japan, the largest overseas market for Chinese farm produce
exports, started to implement the Positive List System for
Agricultural Chemicals Residues on May 29.
The new system, imposing much stricter standards upon residues
in agricultural products, directly affects Chinese agricultural
export worth about US$8 billion and involves more than 6,000
Chinese enterprises, the newspaper said.
Many relevant standards in China are not corresponding with
those new standards in Japan, and for those standards that the two
countries can meet with, one fourth of Japan's are stricter than
Chinese standards, limiting over 60 kinds of Chinese farm produce
including grain, corn and aquatic products.
(Xinhua News Agency August 1, 2006)