Introduction
When pork imports increase sharply, the Japanese government is geared to implement a special measure for protecting domestic pork producers. This urgent and temporary measure is called a “safeguard.” In the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations, the Japanese...
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Introduction
Japan is one of the major nations in the global pork industry. Worldwide, Japan is ranked sixth in pork consumption, ninth in pork production, and first in pork imports (note 1). Domestic production contributes...
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ABSTRACT
Japan has a unique (and complicated) pork import tariff system, called the gate price system. Under this system, importers can minimize their tariff payments by combining high-price (and high-quality) pork with low-price (and low-quality) pork to set the CIF price at 524 yen per...
As Taiwan officially began allowing imports of American pork on Jan. 1, the Council of Agriculture (COA) on Monday (Jan. 4) released its "Pork Dashboard" to inform the public of the quantity and origin of pork imported into the country on a daily basis.
From New Year's Day through Jan. 4, 3,048 tons of pork and 2,811 tons of pork liver, kidney, and other edible parts were reported to have entered the market, with none being imported from overseas. In August of last year, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) announced that Taiwan would open its market to U.S. pork containing "acceptable" levels of ractopamine on Jan. 1.
After a large public outcry over concerns about the health effects of ractopamine residue in the pork imported from the U.S., the COA announced on Monday that it would begin announcing the amount of pork imported from each country on its online "Pork Dashboard" starting that day. reported CNA. The dashboard will include the daily weight of pork in tons that Taiwan produces and imports, and it will be updated every morning at 9 a.m.
Read more here.