BEIJIN: China’s imports of fishery products from Japan fell 40.9 percent in 2023 from a year earlier to 299.49 million dollars, Chinese customs authorities said Thursday.

China’s imports of fishery products from Japan have been nearly zero since September as Beijing imposed a blanket ban on them in late August in protest against Japan’s discharge into the ocean of tritium-containing treated water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

JIJI Press