The phytosanitary authority of China (AQSIQ) authorized six new ports of entry for Chilean apple exports.
Fruit shipments had been suspended after the Neophabrea alba fungus, better known as the Bullseye, had been detected.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Chile detailed that the six new ports of entry were: Ningbo, Shantou (Guangdong), Foshan (Guangdong), Fanyu (Guangdong), Zhongshan (Guangdong) and Dachanwan (Shenzhen).
AQSIQ Ningbo informed on its website that the entry ban had been lifted and that Ningbo was one of the points of entry that would allow Chilean apples.
In January this year, Chile's Livestock and Agricultural Service had reported that the negotiations between them and their Chinese counterpart, to resume apple exports to that market, had had positive results.
Source: Fresh Fruit Portal