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The government has repeatedly stressed that mask production is sufficient. But even after over a month in Corona 19, it's still hard to find and expensive. As a result, half of the domestic production was exported overseas, especially to China. The government has come up with measures to limit exports later tomorrow (26th).

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Export statistics for other textile textile products, including disposable masks.

Exports to China, which was around 30 tons per month in 2019, surged to more than 1,300 tons last month.

In just one month, exports jumped more than 40 times and amounted to 100 times.

By the 20th of this month, the total exports of other textile textile products increased by more than 1,990 tons.

Most increments are estimated to be disposable masks.

The government is cracking down on smuggling masks, but they can't be prevented if they are exported to China after formal declaration.

A government official said, "We recently estimated that 40-50% of domestic mask production was exported."

The government lately put restrictions on exports.

Tomorrow, only 10% of the total mask production is allowed to be exported, and 50% of the production must be shipped to post offices or public dealers.

[Eui-Kyung / Director of Food and Drug Safety: Including medical masks for emergency supply and demand adjustment measures due to the shortage of surgical masks in medical institutions.]

This action is for a limited time until the end of April.

The IRS plans to launch an urgent investigation into hoarding and price cuts for 263 mask manufacturers and distributors today and conduct an intensive tax investigation once tax evasion is confirmed.

(Video coverage: Lee Dong-hyuk, Video editing: Ha Sung-won, Screen provided by the National Tax Service)

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