After enduring weeks of relentless Western criticism regarding the safety of its exports, China, citing its own food safety concerns, has refused import of some Canadian and American pork products.
From MSNBC:
BEIJING - China has rejected shipments of pork kidney from the United States and of spare ribs from Canada after finding traces of a banned growth agent in them, in the latest volley of cross-border accusations over product quality.
The Xinhua news agency cited the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) as saying that the 18.4-tonne shipment of frozen kidneys and the 24-tonne shipment of frozen pork ribs had been returned to the exporters by local quarantine officials in southern Guangdong province.
The growth agent ractopamine, commonly used in the United States, is at the center of negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials over the pork trade.
Apparently, in the trade war game, actions may beget reactions, after all.
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