Today, China has changed the import registration status of many Taiwanese aquatic product companies and fishing boats to a suspension of export. Almost all aquatic products from Taiwan cannot be imported into China. The biggest impact is on larvae (see picture), squid, and saury.

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[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] China today (8th) changed the import registration status of many Taiwanese aquatic product companies and fishing boats to the suspension of export. Almost all Taiwanese aquatic products cannot be exported to China, such as larvae, squid, saury, etc. The biggest impact.

Scholars pointed out that many of Taiwan's agricultural and fishery products are highly dependent on China for export. An overly concentrated market is not a good thing. The crisis is also a turning point. Taiwan should improve processing and expand other markets as soon as possible, otherwise it will only continue to be bullied by China.

At present, there is only one company in Taiwan whose aquatic product products are still valid in China customs import registration status, impacting the aquatic product industry and market. Professor Huang Congqi of the Department of Applied Economics of Chung Hsing University said that the agricultural product market in all countries includes domestic and foreign sales. If export sales are blocked , It is bound to impact the market economy. If the export depends on the single market, it will face a particularly large risk. In the past, the export of Taiwan's agricultural and fishery products was highly dependent on China. If it wants to truly open up the international market, it must not rely on the single market.

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Huang Congqi said that Taiwan's overall agricultural product export policy needs to have more specific guidelines to open up more diverse markets.

In addition, compared with other countries, Taiwan's agricultural and fishery product processing capacity still needs to be improved. He believes that if the crisis is used well, the industry can be turned around, otherwise it will only be bullied again and again.

Zheng Ancang, director of the Department of Aquaculture at Kaohsiung University, said that the Council of Agriculture has actively assisted in the diversification of the market and the upgrading of production groups in recent years. At present, the Fisheries Administration and the academic circles are not only requiring safe use of drugs in fish farming, but also striving to replace drugs with enzymes to achieve "drug-free" "If China suspends the import of aquatic products from Taiwan, my country can speed up product upgrading and high-quality products. For example, larvae are highly accepted in Southeast Asia. The fish is fine in texture and has no spines. It also has the potential to enter the Northeast Asian market, but More importantly, the current import volume of aquatic products in my country is still high, and midge is one of the best family table fish, and the market share of domestic fish can be further increased.

This wave of import suspension orders is not surprising to the relevant industry associations. Shi Jiaozhi, the director-general of the Taiwan Squid and Saury Association, said, "The Prophet of Spring River Plumbing Ducks." Before that, many aquatic product traders approached China for trade business They are always relatively conservative. The Chinese market accounts for 70% to 80% of the squid export market. If there is uncertainty, traders will be afraid to make a move. "So, is there any reason for the industry not to collapse?" For other markets, it is up to the government to formulate relevant incentive measures.

Li Guanting, Director-General of the Taiwan Tuna Association, said that tuna is divided into canned and sashimi. The main market for canned fish is Thailand, while the market for sashimi is dominated by Japan, and the degree of dependence on the Chinese market is relatively low.

Another person in the industry pointed out that although China catches squid and saury itself, the catch cannot supply its own market. After the suspension of imports this time, the domestic market in Taiwan cannot digest squid and saury, and it is bound to resell them to other markets. If there is demand, squid is a seafood item that is acceptable to most markets.