date:Sep 21, 2016
tons after (2004 2015). Emart officials added that other fruits such as cherries, from the Korea-Australia FTA (2014), and pineapples and bananas from the Philippines, from the Korea-ASEAN FTA (2007), are also benefiting from trade agreements.
Free trade agreements with major agricultural producers, and the tariff cuts that followed, have allowed imported fruits to be sold at much more affordable prices, said an Emart official.