date:Oct 19, 2018
s major farm produces and concerns the economic interests of more than 40 million sugar farmers, according to the statement.
Increased sugar imports has caused serious damage to the domestic sugar industry, and thus the Chinese government, at the request of its domestic industry, has adopted safeguard measures on sugar imports according to law, it said.
The tariff-rate quotas on imports of sugar products were among trade measures that China clearly acknowledged to retain when it joined the WTO