The agriculture council said on Tuesday it has brought up the issue of China’s lack of transparency in trading regulations at regular committee meetings at the WTO.
China continues to ban the import of pineapples, custard apples, wax apples and citrus fruits from Taiwan. Some of the bans have lasted over a year.
Taiwan has urged China to provide reports for the ban according to international trade regulations but received no official response from China. The council says it has already improved fruit packaging related processes that China cites as their reason for the ban. The council has also made multiple attempts for further discussions with China but again received no response.
The council further points out Taiwan has raised specific trade concerns on China nine times so far. That's since the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade regular meeting in 2020. Taiwan, along with Canada, Australia, the United States, Japan, and the European Union have raised concerns on China’s lack of transparency in trade regulations.
Taiwan, a WTO member, has the right to raise specific trade concerns at committee meetings and demand fair negotiations with China. The agriculture council emphasizes China should base their trade regulations on factual data instead of bias against Taiwan.