On the morning of August 3, the General Administration of Customs issued the "Notice on suspending the import of citrus fruits, chilled leucorrhea and frozen horse mackerel in Taiwan", because these products imported to the mainland were detected many times. After the announcement of this notice, Taiwan Province was filled with grief. However, this is not the first time that mainland China has suspended food input in Taiwan Province. At the beginning of last year and June this year, because there were problems with pineapple and grouper in Taiwan Province, input was suspended by mainland China one after another.
And on the evening of August 1, the General Administration of Customs also decided to suspend product input from more than 100 Taiwan food companies. According to preliminary statistics from Taiwanese media, the food involved reached more than 2,000.
, Taiwan Province does not make mistakes in itself. While constantly exaggerating the mainland to deliberately suppress it, it also promises the public that the "government" can help solve the difficulties. As a result, some measures not only failed to solve the problem, but also attracted a lot of criticism and accusations from the public.
So how many times mainland China suspends food imports in Taiwan Province, how much impact will it have on it? What so-called solutions does Taiwan Province have to do to do this? Why did it cause constant criticism from the public? Today we will discuss in depth. Please press the like button and don’t let go. We recommend it to more people. Thank you.
At the beginning of last year, due to the problems of pineapple exported to the mainland in Taiwan Province several times, a pest called " scale insect " was even found during the inspection. If it is introduced to the mainland, it may cause serious harm to agricultural production and the ecological environment. Therefore, our General Administration of Customs has announced the important decision to "suspend the import of pineapple from Taiwan to the mainland from March 1, 2021" in order to prevent the risk of plant epidemics.
Although the mainland's decision fully complies with relevant laws, regulations and standards, it caused an uproar in Taiwan Province, with great differences of opinions. Compared with the many worries of pineapple growers and fruit exporters, some officials in Taiwan Province seem to disagree or force themselves to calm down, saying that the mainland's ban has no impact on Taiwan.
Some officials said that the quality of pineapples in Taiwan Province is good, and the mainland cannot lack this fruit, so the ban will not last long and we should continue to purchase pineapples in the province soon.
It is true that pineapple and the pineapple we often eat are not the same fruit. Pineapple is a tropical fruit and the production in the mainland is not much, but as a fruit, pineapple is definitely not an indispensable necessity. The same is true for the mainland. Many mainland people are even more accustomed to the taste of pineapple, and the production of pineapple in Hainan Province is not small, which can meet the needs of most pineapple enthusiasts.
Therefore, the mainland did not resume procurement of pineapple in Taiwan as the official expected. Even because pineapples in Taiwan Province cannot be sold in mainland China, most of the market that was empty in the mainland was occupied by pineapples and pineapples produced in mainland China, benefiting many fruit farmers in mainland China.
As for the pineapple in Taiwan Province, there was soon unsalable sales, which made many fruit farmers feel worried. As a result, some provincial officials advised fruit farmers not to worry, saying that as long as we eat more ourselves, we can solve the problem of unsalable sales of pineapple. Some officials even claimed that as long as the people in our province eat openly, they can eat all the pineapple produced in Taiwan in 5 days.
At that time, the pseudo-government of Taiwan also vigorously called on the people to eat more so-called "love Taiwan pineapple".
As a result, these people shouted and the sales of pineapple on the island did not increase. Someone calculated that according to Taiwan officials, if the people want to eat pineapples that are completely produced in 5 days, they will eat about 8 kilograms per day.
Seeing that the people's dissatisfaction is getting stronger and stronger, Taiwan Province has come forward to say that although Taiwan Province cannot sell pineapples in mainland China, they can still be sold in other markets, such as Southeast Asian countries.
The result is that Southeast Asian countries also produce pineapples themselves. Not only does the production be large, but the quality is also better than that of Taiwan Province, so they cannot open up the Southeast Asian market.
is like this. With the continuous comfort and promises of Taiwan Province, the pineapple industry in the province has been getting deeper and deeper in the crisis, and it is still in disgrace.
Last year, in addition to pineapples, the input of the mainland was suspended from input. There were also Sakyamuni and Wax fog in Taiwan Province. The result was similar.
A fruit exporter in Taiwan told the media that he has been doing fruit export business for more than 10 years, and his biggest customer is the mainland. About 90% of the containers are sold to the mainland every year. However, since the mainland suspended imports of pineapple, sakya and wax fruits in Taiwan last year, his fruit sales have dropped sharply. Originally, he could produce two or three hundred containers of fruit in a year, but half of this year he had only produced four or five containers.
Fruit dealer said that by 2021, he could sell pineapples to hundreds of containers on the mainland in a year. This year, with the help of quotes in Taiwan Province, he mainly sold pineapples to Japan, but the sales volume was still less than one-tenth of that in the past. In his words, the so-called "help" in Taiwan Province can only be considered better than nothing. He said that he had blindly believed the promises of some officials in the province and thought that the pineapple business would be better, so he still insisted on doing the pineapple business. As a result, after a year, he lost money. Now he is also considering switching to other fruit businesses.
This fruit merchant is by no means an isolated case. Many fruit exporters in the province have had similar experiences.
After losing the mainland market, pineapples in Taiwan Province are now mainly sold to Japan, accounting for more than 60% of total exports, but they are far from comparable to the sales volume in the mainland before. Moreover, since Taiwan Province's pineapple has been exposed to "black heart" in Japan many times, Japanese media often criticized Taiwan Province's pineapple for its poor quality and taste, so its prices have continued to decline. For example, in 2020, a Taiwan pineapple can be sold for more than 700 yen in Japan, but it fell to 2 pieces last year, and this year, one piece can only be sold for more than 100 yen, equivalent to 5 yuan. This price is definitely much cheaper than the mainland pineapple.
Many pineapple growers in Taiwan have complained about this, saying that last year the provincial government had assured the public that they would "spent NT$1 NT$21 billion to do domestic and foreign sales to maintain farmers' income", but now sales are not only less, but the prices are also lower, and farmers' income cannot be maintained at all.
Then in June this year, our General Administration of Customs issued a notice that since last year, mainland customs have repeatedly detected banned drugs such as malachite green from mainland groupers transported to Taiwan Province, and also detected that oleracin exceeds the standard.
According to the relevant agreements signed by the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan fishing boats transport live fish to the mainland and need to apply for a voyage loading and unloading list before leaving the port, which states important information such as which farm the live fish comes from.
In Taiwan Province, there are more than 2,000 grouper farmers, but there are only a few 450 farms that allow export of grouper to the mainland. As a result, many fish merchants in the province bought grouper from farmers who were not allowed to be sold to mainland China and wrote the information of qualified farmers on the loading and unloading list, which resulted in the quality of grouper sold to mainland China being unable to guarantee, and many problems arose.
Therefore, in order to prevent risks, the mainland has decided to suspend the import of grouper in Taiwan from June 13 in accordance with relevant laws. After the ban on
was released, many fishermen in the province became anxious and called on the Taiwan Province to negotiate with the mainland and resolve the problem as soon as possible. Because the mainland is the main market for grouper in Taiwan, in 2021, almost all of the grouper exported by Taiwan Province are sold to the mainland.
However, Taiwan Province disregarded the public's voices and did not want to solve the problem through the right way. Instead, he refused to admit that he was poorly managed. He also carried out political manipulation and hype that the mainland was suppressing it. At the same time, he used the same trick again to encourage the people to consume grouper by themselves, thereby solving the problem of unsalable sales.
But this time, the people don’t buy it. After all, the price of grouper is not low, and ordinary people don’t know how to eat it.
Results Taiwan Province came up with another "trick trick" and decided to "force buying and selling", and the target it chose was the troops within the province.
In fact, during the Taiwan pineapple storm last year, the Taiwan Province had vigorously promoted unsold pineapples to the army, and the army was reluctant to buy some pineapples.So this time, they set their sights on the army again.
But the army had no mine at home, so they only bought more than 1,500 kilograms of grouper. They mean it, just say it.
However, some people say that the army is actually not short of money and don’t buy it, mainly because they are also afraid that there will be problems with the grouper they sell to them.
For this reason, some netizens in Taiwan joked that the military in Taiwan is too weak and can only eat unsold things. Some netizens also condemned that selling grouper suspected of having banned drugs to the army is tantamount to treating soldiers as experimental items, and this behavior is really irresponsible.
sees that the army cannot be sold for force, so he has to choose another target. So shortly afterwards, the local education authorities decided to spend NT$600 million to provide one meal of grouper per month for primary and secondary school students in Taiwan from September this year to the end of the year.
The local "Agriculture Commission" said that the plan is preparing to provide about 70 grams of fish per student per meal, and a total of 1,600 tons of grouper is expected to be needed in a year. As soon as the news came out, public opinion in the province suddenly became boiling and the crowds were in a hurry, and many people were furious.
sold grouper to the army before, but in fact, the people did not have much objection. First, the army bought less, and many people felt that it was not their business, so they just regarded it as a show. But now, the grouper suspected of having banned drugs is actually given to children. This is a breakthrough in the bottom line, and this matter involves a wider range, almost every family, and no one wants their children to eat food that may be problematic.
There was a media in Taiwan's province that because it could not be exported to the mainland, about 3,600 tons of grouper were unsold. According to the plan of the Taiwan province, the province had to "digest" 1,600 tons by themselves, and this amount was exactly the same as the total amount of grouper consumed in the "school lunch plan". Obviously, this was their calculation.
Therefore, a large number of netizens in Taiwan criticized Taiwan Province for cheating on the children in order to "help grouper to unravel the condom", and it was so rotten that it could not be rotten any more.
Faced with the outrage of the people, the Taiwan Province also panicked. He repeatedly denied that the school lunch plan was to solve the problem of grouper unsalable sales, claiming that they considered that grouper was very nutritious and tasted good, but the price was relatively high, so children rarely could eat it, so they introduced such a measure to benefit the people.
The local "Agriculture Commission" also told the media that the school's lunch plan is definitely not to "unlock grouper", but a "reciprocal" measure that can achieve win-win results for students, parents and fishermen.
, these deceptive explanations are hard to believe. People in the province accused them of "talking lies with their eyes open", especially the officials of the local "Agriculture Committee" who were eager to untie the grouper and also untie themselves.
So some officials in the province began to avoid the important and "take a wrong approach", saying that they could use the school lunch plan to promote the grouper industry in Taiwan, so that students could learn more extracurricular knowledge.
As a result, this explanation was criticized by the public again. Some people said that they really wanted to promote the grouper industry in Taiwan to let them know that these groupers were not sold because they were not qualified for quarantine, so they were given food.
In addition to "forced selling", Taiwan Province also played the "Love Taiwan Card" in promoting grouper.
With the upcoming August, grouper has also entered a high-yield period. In order to further solve the problem of grouper unsalable sales, with the support of the Taiwan Provincial "Committee of Agriculture", Ernst & Young Group established the so-called "fish burger" store in Taiwan on July 25, launching six fish burgers including grouper and sea bass, of which one grouper burger sells NT$200.
However, before this, other merchants in Taiwan had launched grouper burgers, and they only sold for about NT$100.
But when some people questioned that the price of EY Group's grouper burgers was too high, the store manager explained that their grouper burgers mainly sold for "feelings" and "sold to who care about the earth and and like Taiwan". The biggest purpose is to help Taiwanese fishermen, so the price is higher.
This statement sounds like nothing wrong with us, but it has caused another wave of reprimand in Taiwan Province. Because of this, the people in the province are so familiar with it. The Taiwan Province likes to do this kind of moral kidnapping . For example, if pineapples cannot be sold, he said that in order to love Taiwan, he should eat more pineapples, and wax can not be sold. He also called on pineapples to love Taiwan, he should eat more waxes. Even before, in order to lift the ban on "nuclear food" for Japan, he also promoted that those who love Taiwan would buy it.
Now he tied up eating grouper with AiTaiwan, and as a result, the people in the province who had been tired of this arrangement were even more annoyed, and even the last bit of sympathy for the fishermen was "consumption".
A Taiwanese netizen said that grouper in Taiwan is "expensive and poisonous", so he can't sell it. As a result, he still has to act arrogantly to hold people hostage and sell it more expensively. This clearly treats people who love Taiwan as fools.
Zhao Shaokang, a senior media person in the province, once criticized that every time agricultural product exports are blocked, some officials in Taiwan do not want to solve the problem directly, but only "persuading food" and like to engage in "emotional blackmail", which shows that the authorities are too incompetent.
Then on the evening of August 1, the General Administration of Customs announced that these products were temporarily suspended from being imported into the mainland because some manufacturers in Taiwan violated relevant regulations.
According to United News Network html on the 22nd, the status of many food merchants in Taiwan Province in the Mainland has been changed to "suspended imports", including many well-known brands, such as Guo Yuanyi Food, Weili Food, Weiquan Food and Taishan Enterprises.
Many media said that this may be a more serious pause of input than fruits and aquatic products produced in Taiwan. Because according to statistics from Taiwan’s media, the mainland has suspended the import of thousands of food from more than 100 Taiwanese businessmen, including aquatic products, health products, tea, biscuits and beverages, etc. Statistics show that among the more than 3,200 registered items of food in Taiwan’s corporate enterprises, nearly 2,100 have been “suspended for import”, with a proportion of up to more than 60%.
Among them, aquatic products were banned the highest, reaching more than 780 items. The website of the General Administration of Customs shows that many aquatic products companies in Taiwan have the status of "suspended imports".
Taiwan Provincial "Committee of Agriculture" recently stated that the banned aquatic products include live fish, fresh refrigerated fish, frozen fish, dried fish, mixed fish, canned fish , etc. In terms of fish species, in addition to the grouper that was banned before, there are now many other fish such as tuna , bonito, halibut, saury , etc., but the specific "the scope of the ban is wide, the Fisheries Department is still under investigation."
Among health products, honey is a major banned category. Staff from the Taiwan Provincial Beekeeping Association said that although the production of honey in the province is not large, about 80 million to 10,000 tons per year, even fewer can be exported. Therefore, theoretically speaking, the ban on honey does not have much impact on beekeepers in the province. However, there are still many beekeepers in Taiwan Province who are raising beekeepers in Southeast Asian countries, such as Thailand, , Philippines, and . The honey production in these areas is much greater, and most of them are sold to the mainland, so the ban still has a great impact on these beekeepers in Taiwan Province.
As for the tea part, people from relevant associations said that the low-end tea produced in Taiwan Province is basically domestically sold, so it is not greatly affected by the ban. However, high-end tea, such as alpine organic tea produced above 2,000 meters above sea level, is sold to the mainland, and these merchants and tea farmers are greatly affected by the ban.
However, the most affected by the ban are merchants operating biscuits and beverages in Taiwan.
The official website of the General Administration of Customs of the Mainland shows that among the products category "biscuits, pastries, breads", a total of 107 companies in Taiwan Province originally received registration numbers in mainland China, but now 35 companies are in a state of "suspended import", accounting for about one-third.
According to the official website of Weili Food, the company's products are mainly exported to the mainland. It has a total of 9 strongholds in the mainland. Now, due to the suspension of imports by the mainland, the losses are heavy.
Guo Yuanyi Foods also told the media that their company only received relevant news on the 2nd that the company's products sold to the mainland in the past, including pineapple crisp , have now been banned and the losses are relatively large.
According to statistics from the so-called "Ministry of Finance" of Taiwan Province, the amount of food exported to the mainland by Taiwan Province reached 11.34 billion yuan last year, of which prepared food was the largest, and 32% of the exported prepared food in the province were sold to the mainland, with an export value of 4.38 billion yuan.
Shi Zize, director of the Taiwan Food Development Association, told the media that there are about 300 to 400 members of the association, more than half or even two-thirds of them have food business dealings with the mainland. Affected by the mainland ban, many members of the association have lost at least several million. He predicted that the impact of this ban may be greater and more serious than the past pineapple and grouper.
However, in the face of this situation, Taiwan Province is still stubborn. On August 2, the so-called "Mayor" of Tainan, Huang Weizhe, posted a post on Twitter, saying that Taiwan's food factories have strong adaptability, and the so-called "authority" must be the strongest backing, saying that "we are not afraid."
, for this, the chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Federation of Commerce Xu Shubo believes that cross-strait peace and stability are the cornerstone of Taiwan's economic development. Only a peaceful and stable situation can provide substantial help to Taiwan's economy and trade. However, Taiwan's province has repeatedly broken this situation, which has caused huge losses to the food operators and the vast number of farmers and fishermen in Taiwan.
and many Taiwanese businessmen said that the food industry in Taiwan is now in a state of "dismal misery". For example, brands such as Weili, Weiquan , and Taishan have hundreds of containers sold to the mainland every year. Originally, after August, the pastry industry was about to start to welcome the peak mooncake season, but now these well-known businesses have been banned. Coupled with the impact of the previous COVID-19 epidemic, they will suffer a huge loss.
Many businesses can't help but condemn the media for their actions to implicate the people, and condemn them for always doing something meaningless, but the people suffer, but afterwards they pretend to be arrogant, but in fact they are "panic" in their hearts.
The pessimism reflected by the market is also very obvious. On August 2, the stock prices of most food stocks in the province fell seriously. Originally, the provincial food stock index reached 1900.05 points on July 29, setting a three-month high, but it opened low on the 2nd, falling 2.15% in the end.
Immediately afterwards, on August 3, the General Administration of Customs of the Mainland decided to suspend the import of citrus fruits, chilled leucorrhea and frozen horse mackerel from Taiwan Province from that day onwards.
Since last year, mainland customs have repeatedly detected pests from mainland citrus fruits imported from Taiwan Province to mainland citrus fruits, as well as various pesticide residues exceeding the standard; in June this year, the packaging of the frozen leucorrhea and frozen horse mackerel from Taiwan Province to mainland China was detected to be positive for the nucleic acid of the new coronavirus.
According to the China Times News Network of Taiwan Province, the Taiwan province exported 2886 tons of "other citrus" last year, of which 2483 tons were sold to the mainland, accounting for as high as 86%. There were also 9146 tons of "frozen white hairtail" exported to the mainland last year, almost 100% of which were sold to the mainland. As for the "frozen bamboo fish" exported 4226 tons last year, of which 2161 tons were sent to the mainland, accounting for about 50%. Therefore, after the ban on mainland China came out, the losses suffered by relevant practitioners in Taiwan were also huge.
The fruit vendor we mentioned earlier that made the export of pineapple and wax fog told the media that pineapple, sakura and wax were originally the largest and best-selling fruits in Taiwan, and are also the most accepted fruits in mainland China. However, after being suspended from input by the mainland, it has caused huge losses to the operators. Now even citrus in Taiwan Province are banned, including lemons, oranges, oranges, etc., so they only have guava , star fruit , mango and other fruits that were originally sold in the mainland market, which can still be exported. In the past, after he added these fruits, he was not even able to fill a container. How can he do this business in the future?
Originally, the fruit dealer was planning to switch to export other fruits, but now he doesn't know what else to do.But judging from the current situation, in fact, a large amount of Taiwan foods have been suspended from being imported by the mainland may just be the beginning. Next, we will wait and see.
Finally, I still want to say: Child, hurry up and go home, mom still loves you!
, that’s all for today. See you next time. I wish you all.
