March 23, 2000-- So long as its own wheat industry is not threatened, China allows the import of all kinds of wheat  from the United States, according to a government bulletin  published on March 23, 2000.

The bulletin was issued in accordance with a Sino-U.S.  agreement on agricultural cooperation by the Chinese Ministry of  Agriculture, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic  Cooperation and the State Administration of Inspection of Import  and Export Commodities.

The U.S. quarantine departments should inspect and quarantine  the wheat which is to be exported to China and should provide  quarantine certificates for the qualified batches, according to  the bulletin.

The number of TCK spores in wheat imported from the US should  not surpass the number written in the Sino-US agreement, and  relevant research on TCK spores will be carried out between the  two countries to make the calculation of the number of such spores more accurate, the bulletin said.
 

China has alos agreed to import of U.S. meat as of March 20 in a notice made  public on March 23, 2000.  The notice was made jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture,  the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the  State Administration of Inspection for Import and Export  Commodities (AIIEC) on March 20.

The notice, made in accordance with China's Law on Exit and  Entry Quarantine of Animals and Plants and the Law on Food Hygiene of the People's Republic of China, and the Sino-U.S. Agreement on  Agriculture Cooperation, says US meat imported by China must come  from slaughterhouses approved by the Food Safety Inspection Bureau under the US Department of Agriculture.

The US Food Safety Inspection Bureau must conduct inspection  and quarantine of all meat to be exported to China, and issue a  hygiene certificate.