China Implements Customs Requirements for Fresh Pears From South Africa
China imposed phytosanitary requirements for any fresh pears exported from South Africa, the General Administration of Customs said, according to an unofficial translation. The new standards include requiring that packaging plants and cold storage vessels shipping the pears to China…
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must be registered with South Africa's Ministry of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and also approved by China's General Administration of Customs. The requirements also lay out a list of eight pests for which, if detected, a fresh pear shipment will be quarantined.