China broadens seafood trade with Cambodia, Tanzania

China’s customs body has signed protocols with the governments of Cambodia and Tanzania to allow wild-caught seafood from the two nations to enter China.

A statement from China’s General Administration of Customs said the protocol doesn’t cover live animals or wild species listed in the appendix of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

The seafood industry accounts for 8 to 10 percent of Cambodia’s gross domestic product, with wild-catch fisheries representing 13 percent of the industry’s sales. On Thursday, 8 December, the Asian Development Bank approved a USD 73 million (EUR 68.6 million) financing package targeted at …

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