The chairs of the CECC sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security urging the department to publish an order to detain all shipments from Liaoning and Shandong.
To meet hygiene standards required for export, the scheme will allow qualified inmates to commute to private-sector processing plants without the supervision of prison officers.
The government will continue its curbs on overseas shipments of the sweetener beyond October 31, according to a notice from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade on October 18.
While the U.S. government has taken some steps to block such imports, neither the British government nor the European Union has followed Washington’s lead.
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