Norway running out of options in China, as salmon market share falls from 90% to 30%
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [South China Morning Post] By Sarah Karacs - Sept 30, 2014
Norway has paid a high price since dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, with Beijing continuing to turn the screw
China’s relationship with Oslo has remained frosty for far longer than expected since a Norwegian committee awarded dissident Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, and experts say there is little the Scandinavian country can do to appease Beijing.
The latest blow to Sino-Norwegian trade came on September 10, when China announced a ban on salmon infected with ILA, a virus that is harmless to humans but prevalent in European waters.
While spokesmen at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) – the Chinese body that regulates food safety – claim that the new legislation was in response to its discovery of a batch of contaminated Norwegian salmon this summer, experts suspect the gesture was a punitive one....
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