Last month, China's General Administration of Customs (GACC) published sanitary requirements for various food imports from countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Central America, as China tries to boost agricultural imports.

At yesterday's meeting of the WTO Committee on Market Access, Japan raised the issue of restrictions on imports of aquatic products imposed by China, Hong Kong, and Macao in response to Japan's recent discharge of Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS)-treated water into the sea, following

In recent weeks, China's customs agency released sanitary requirements for fruit imports from Benin, Venezuela, Cambodia, and Zambia, as follow-ups to recent high-level meetings with the leaders of those countries.

Over the first half of September, China's customs agency made several announcements that will impact trade in beef and dairy products.

The China-Japan trade dispute that has resulted from Japan's discharge of treated radioactive wastewater has not yet developed into a formal WTO dispute, but there have been some new developments related to the issue over the past few days.

Last week, China notified the WTO of its emergency restrictions on Japanese aquatic products based on Japan's discharge of treated radioactive water, and Japan has now raised objections at the WTO.

As Japan started discharging its treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean today, China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) announced that it is banning all imports of aquatic products from Japan.