date:Mar 25, 2014
d be found in the home country.
This was the basis for recently allowing China access to US-bound poultry, she said.
Perkins also said that China's poultry clearance was a process which took ten years, and before that Uruguay's bid to ship citrus to the US took 20 years to gain approval. A very sudden changing of standards is not a step that is taken lightly.
China also does a regular citrus trade with Australia and South Africa and has required cold treatment on all incoming citrus from th