Mentioning swine fever, China prohibits pork imports from India

Chinese authorities have actually said they have put in location a restriction on pork imports from India, a relocation that State media has actually linked to the ongoing border stress.

A joint notification issued by the General Administration of Customs of China and the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs on Wednesday stated China “is set to prohibit imports of pigs, swine and related products from India in an effort to prevent African swine fever (ASF) and guarantee the safety of China’s animal husbandry”.

While the main notification from the government made no reference of the ongoing border dispute, the Global Times, a Communist Party-run paper, reported that “the restriction follows stress between the 2 nations flared up in Galwan Valley region”, which