Chinese leaders met with the Indonesian President recently and vowed to further deepen cooperation in trade and investment, energy, mining, agriculture, and the Belt and Road Initiative. Pineapples and palm oil are among the commodities for which trade could be boosted by this visit.

China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) has imposed its first cross-border penalty for financial fraud on Malaysian listed company Lambo Group Berhad's subsidiary in China.

China's Customs announced recently that it will start allowing green bananas from Myanmar.

China's Customs recently announced new rules under which imports of aquatic products from Cambodia, including catfish, are allowed.

A long-standing China-Philippines dispute over fishing in disputed waters has flared up again, with the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) filing an official protest against a Chinese fishing ban.

China's Customs recently announced that it will allow longan imports from Cambodia. This is the third fruit that has been allowed to be shipped from Cambodia to China.

Recently, China's Customs announced that it would suspend imports of cloven-hoofed animals and related products from Indonesia due to foot-and-month disease, and impose certain sanitary requirements on containers and cargos from some African countries.