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Overcoming hurdles and launching its first cherry exports to China last month, Turkey's cherry sales to the Far East country have totalled 3.3 million dollars and the Western Mediterranean region of the country accounted for 1.9 million dollars of the total cherry exports. Western Mediterranean Exporters' Association (BAİB) Chairman Hakkı Bahar said in a statement that the exports of Isparta, a province in the region, to China rose by 14.5 percent and hit 28,872 dollars. "The efforts of our association to remove the hurdles for cherry exports to China have led to a significant hike in Isparta's cherry sales to the Far East country. Last year, the exporters were obliged to keep their products at cold-storage units for days to qualify for sales to China, and this used to negatively impact the product quality, stemming the development of exports," Bahar said. The Turkish exporters told the government about Australia's practice of fumigation by way of wh...

Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said that long term negotiations on trade in agricultural products with China have begun to bear its fruits... "25 tons of cherries for the first time from Turkey to China of which 20 tons to Guangzhou, 5 tons reached Shanghai. Hopefully fruits, vegetables, fish and dairy products will be following this product" Minister Pekcan said. She came to Beijing on the occasion of Organization of EXPO 2019, answering questions of AA correspondent, she also stated that they often met with Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko at Davos, Paris, OECD meetings and G-20 Trade Ministers meetings and signed the Free Trade Agreement with this country during this year. Pekcan, underlining that both sides are very keen on this issue, concluded: "The trade volume of Japan about 750 billion dollars, it also consists of 73 billion dollars just food and agricultural imports. Turkey needs such a large market. But there are some sensit...