EU to consider relaxing import restrictions on Chinese peanuts

Introduction: according to a recent report in the British journal business news, the European Commission has issued a revised proposal to relax the tough policy of strict restrictions on Chinese peanut imports implemented at the beginning of this year In February this year, after the European Commission found that China's aflatoxin testing procedures did not meet the requirements in the inspection, it took strict regulatory control on the import of Chinese peanuts The European Commission announced that Chinese peanuts must pass strict health tests at designated European ports before they are allowed to enter the European community Despite this, in June, the European Commission pointed out that in recent months, there has been a great improvement in monitoring, so we can now consider relaxing the restrictions The European Commission has submitted a working draft with some specific amendments, which have now been published as an official document of the Commission and will be considered before December 31 of this year In its previous working paper, vuy pointed out that the results of the tests showed that before all the goods were put on the market, the importing Member States no longer needed to carry out sampling analysis on them According to the agency, random sampling analysis should be carried out for about 10% of the delivered goods, which is enough to guarantee the public health, so that the goods will not be stuck in the port for more than 10 working days at most The UK peanut Association proposed that the revised regulations should improve the trade situation of its member countries It pointed out that in recent months, many importers have incurred a large number of terminal storage fees and port demurrage fees due to the demurrage of goods caused by inspection Due to the Port Health Inspection Bureau has said that the level and probability of aflatoxin contamination of commodities has been significantly lower than last year, the British peanut Association expects that the European Commission will issue the decision Vuy, a London importer, said his company had lost 58658 pounds ($90000) in terminal storage and port demurrage charges alone since the restrictions were introduced in February, although he was relieved by the easing He points out that previous tests took 25 days VuY