Overview
- Kyodo and NHK reported that China told Japan it will reimpose a blanket ban on seafood imports, citing unnamed sources.
- The move reverses a limited reopening earlier this month that allowed select shipments from approved facilities with radiation inspection certificates.
- Kyodo said Beijing attributed the renewed halt to a need for further monitoring of treated water releases from the Fukushima plant.
- Before the restrictions, China accounted for more than one fifth of Japan’s seafood exports, according to official Japanese data.
- China’s commerce ministry and customs and Japan’s farm ministry did not immediately comment, and outlets described the situation as developing.