USA CLAIMS CHINA IS ILLEGALLY LOCKING OUT MEAT IMPORTS WITH TOUGH HEALTH RULES
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL UNITED States officials have claimed China is effectively locking out processed meat imports by erecting overly tough health rules on foreign meat and poultry products. American diplomats told a meeting of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) sanitary and phytosanitary committee such rules do not apply to Chinese-made meat and poultry products and also alleged "China's zero tolerance for pathogens on meat and poultry" is "not based on science". This would break China's WTO commitments on fair and open trading, and could enable Washington to ...
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