The political tragedy of "Love Tower"

Author's business Taiwan special commentator

On June 13, mainland China was suspended from importing Taiwan grouper due to the test ban. Dryfish is one of the ECFA earlier list projects, so it is known as "political fish"; after the incident, Cai Yingwen did not accidentally shouting to the people "Eat the grouper, support Taiwan!", Taiwan "Agricultural Committee" It was also sacrificed for more than NT $ 800 million in grouper subsidy funds to appease fishermen. But in addition to pushing all the problems on the other side, is it really okay in Taiwan's grouper?

Earlier this year, the mainland suspended the import of two grouper farms in Pingtung for two banned medicines on the grounds of experiments. At that time, the Agricultural Council did not review it carefully. After random testing, he "found nothing violated". However, according to the statistics of the Taiwan "Agricultural Committee", there are about 2,000 grouper farming households in Taiwan, but only 458 are the export -qualified farms of the NATO; and the Taiwan "Agricultural Committee" has been drawn every time. Of course, the rules of the industry cannot find the violation. In fact, sometimes the exporters are unstable, and they will mix out the supply of unsuccessful management. Can the bad habits of "backdoor export" have a long time, can it not happen?

Taking pineapple as an example, in March last year, the mainland suspended pineapple imports due to the problem of the scale insects. To solve this problem, the cold chain storage and insect removal must be strengthened. However, the Democratic Progressive Party immediately pushed the problem to "political suppression" and sacrificed the "overseas expansion reward plan", high subsidy shipping costs, attracting many unscrupulous merchants to earn the difference in shipping costs, and the non -producing seasonal fruits caused poor quality to cause poor quality. In chaos, from the Singapore to the Japanese market, the phenomenon of browning of pineapple brown in Taiwan has appeared. The problem of insect pests is frequently circulated, the quality is unstable, and the image of Taiwan fruits is greatly injured.

It can be seen that from the previous pineapple, Shakya, to today's grouper, the DPP encountered problems, and all of them were solved with political means. The contradiction between the people's emotions, then launched the "eating patriotic pineapple, loving the grouper in love", which stimulated the consumption behavior of people in Taiwan to eat pineapple and consumer grouper. The model was unchanged. What's wrong with the quality of the quality? Not to mention that these agricultural and fishery products cannot be sold on the other side, let alone enter the global market.

And the mainland suspended the import of grouper in Taiwan, Chen Jizhong, chairman of the Taiwan "Agricultural Committee", immediately stated that the grouper was one of the projects for ECFA's early list. The goal of the list of early collection list is contradictory. In fact, when the ECFA agreement was signed, the mainland opened 18 kinds of items such as grouper, mullet, noon fish, Wenxinlan, red dragon fruit, banana, etc. It is "inch soil", and no mainland agricultural and fisheries products are included in the early collection list.

Since you also know that the grouper is "letting" openness at first, and now the ECFA agreement has been more than ten years, but cross -strait relations have fallen to the bottom after the DPP ruling. "Resting" does not seem to be necessary to make any more.

Secondly, the Taiwan "Agricultural Committee" intends to sue the World Trade Organization (WTO) in one way, but the reason for the suspension of Taiwan's grouper imports in the mainland is that the banned medicines and harmful substances in Taiwan were repeatedly verified in Taiwan. It does not violate the regulations on the Agreement of WTO food safety inspection and animal and plant epidemic prevention and quarantine measures. If you really want to resort to the WTO dispute resolution, Taiwan's "Agricultural Committee" should first conduct a comprehensive inspection of all the grouper farms in Taiwan in order to have sufficient evidence that the mainland is banned from Taiwan's grouper. support. Instead of accusing the opposite side of the ban on the import of grouper in Taiwan is "political operation".

In fact, from early pineapple, Shakya to today's grouper, all of them were packaged by Tsai Ing -wen and the DPP as political issues. The profit of 18 agricultural products in ECFA has also been criticized by the DPP as poison wrapped in sugar coats. In the past, it was "raised and packed". Cang, just take the opportunity to "kill"; the mantra of the Democratic Progressive Party, "the conspiracy of the A community."

This is the case. Thinking, the mainland has no pipelines to launch a conspiracy to "raising a set of kills" in the people of Taiwan. Does the DPP have this courage?

Furthermore, according to the provisions of the Guanbei General Administration (GATT), if the free trade agreement has not been signed within ten years, the relevant concessions of these early collection lists are the "principle of the most beneficiary country treatment" that violates the WTO. WTO report; the ECFA agreement signed in 2010 has been more than ten years, and the final negotiation has not been completed. Can the mainland not recover the early collection list?

Trade disputes cannot be solved in political languages, nor can the veterans "love the derived grouper and the anti -Chinese fruit" to extortion of Chinese people to eat more and buy more, to digest the original export of the mainland.From Tsai Ing -wen to Chen Jizhong, instead of politically, it is better to review the production and sales structure of Taiwan and fishing products, and do a good job of quality control and improve the quarantine process, and let everything be handed over to scientific evidence to speak. Taiwan's agricultural and fisheries productsIn order to put aside political tragedy and truly go international.Source: Huaxia Jingwei.com

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