US to tighten apple export control after moth larva found

The US has agreed to tighten controls on apple exports to Taiwan after a codling moth larva was found in a shipment of Fuji apples from Washington state.

"The US will provide us with information on the orchard and the packaging plant which supplied the shipment of apples, within two days, and submit the investigation report within a week," said Liu Hsing-shan, deputy chief of the economic affairs section at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US.

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