date:Oct 21, 2019
bananas in Japan, which currently imposes 18-percent tariff during the winter season and 8 percent during the summer, Dar said.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said Japan is one of the countries where Philippine bananas are heavily taxed. In fact, Japan used to be the largest importer of Philippine bananas until China took the spot in 2018.
From January to July, the Philippines exported 788,000 tons of cavendish bananas to Japan, which was 54.27 percent higher than the 510,800 tons shipped