Japan May Request WTO Panel in August Over Seoul’s Fishery Import Ban
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Japan Times] -July 21, 2015
Japanese agriculture minister Yoshimasa Hayashi suggested Tuesday the government may request the World Trade Organization set up a dispute settlement panel as early as next month over South Korea’s import restrictions on Japanese fishery products.
South Korea issued the ban following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, which resulted in massive radiation leakage from the crippled No. 1 nuclear plant.
Initially banning imports of 50 kinds of marine products from Fukushima Prefecture and seven other nearby prefectures, in September 2013 Seoul expanded the restrictions to bar all fishery products from the eight ...
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