Overview

• China Customs announced on June 29 that imports of Japanese seafood will resume from all but ten specified prefectures after nearly two years of prohibition
• Seafood products from Chiba, Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Nagano, Niigata, Saitama, Tochigi and Tokyo remain barred entry into China
• Resumed imports must be accompanied by Japanese government‐issued health certificates, radioactive substance detection qualification certificates and production area certificates for customs clearance
• Beijing’s decision follows long-term international and independent Chinese monitoring that found no abnormalities in treated Fukushima wastewater
• Hong Kong continues its precautionary ban on seafood from the same ten prefectures pending further scientific review