In order to save Tsai Ing-wen's face, the Taiwan authorities hurriedly announced that they would sell two tons of pineapples to Australia this month. This is even more intense!

  [Global Times reporter Cheng Dong] In order to restore Tsai Ing-wen’s face that no fresh pineapples were sold to Australia last year, Taiwan’s “Council of Agriculture” announced that 2 tons of pineapples would be sold to Australia this month, which caused even stronger doubts.

  According to a report from the United Daily News on the 29th, Tsai Ing-wen announced in March last year that Taiwan’s pineapples would break through the quarantine barrier and would be exported to Australia. Unexpectedly, after the mainland temporarily suspended imports of Taiwan’s pineapples, the island discovered that only 56 kilograms of dried pineapples were exported to Australia last year. The DPP The authorities were criticized for "big internal propaganda" too much.

Taiwan’s "Council of Agriculture" first argued that this was due to the lack of containers and high freight rates due to the epidemic. Then it quickly announced that 2 tons of pineapples would be exported to Australia this month. Unexpectedly, it was reported that the packaging did not meet the specifications.

On the 28th, Taiwan’s “Council of Agriculture” announced excitedly that the first batch of 2 tons of Taiwanese pineapples pre-ordered by Australian consumers finally arrived in Australia on March 25 by air. Taiwan’s pineapple exports to Australia establish a standard customs clearance and business model".

The "Council of Agriculture" also stated that from March 1 to 26, the number of Taiwanese pineapple exports to markets outside the mainland has reached 3,813 tons, an increase of 436% over the same period last year (excluding the mainland) of 711 tons.

  Some agricultural experts on the island criticized that a batch of pineapples were suddenly exported to Australia, and it was a complete political operation.

Xu Shixun, a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at National Taiwan University, said that all regions will protect their own fruit farmers through trade or quarantine barriers. Therefore, when planning the export of agricultural products, we must be cautious and use long-term operations by importers and exporters. Export rescue.

Some agricultural experts bluntly said that this is not a normal export channel at all. Now Taiwan has been messed up due to the pineapple ban. In just a few days, a batch of pineapples have been exported to Australia. However, the quality of exports to Singapore was not well controlled.

Former "legislator" Sun Daqian said that in the past five years or so, the DPP authorities had not made concrete achievements in decentralizing the export market of agricultural products, and now they were suddenly banned from import by the mainland, and only then hurriedly sent 2 tons of pineapple to Australia for business.

  According to the analysis of Taiwan’s United News Network, there was no pineapple sold to Australia in the past year. On the one hand, it was indeed affected by the epidemic and the freight was soaring; on the other hand, because Australia itself is rich in pineapples, it is naturally difficult for Taiwan without demand and competitiveness There is an order. Now the "CoA" has beaten gongs and drums to publicize, "It's just that these pineapples that cost a lot of money by air have arrived, and then? Will it be just another big domestic announcement?" It is understood that this batch of pineapples is in the "CoA". In the case of NT$105 per kilogram as a shipping fee, one still costs 20 Australian dollars, which is equivalent to more than NT$430 in NT dollars, which is nearly 10 times higher than the price of local pineapples. According to the article, export sales pay attention to long-term orders. Do you have to rely on the "homesickness" and "love of Taiwan" of overseas Chinese to buy Taiwanese pineapples with tears every time? "The Council of Agriculture's practice of only pursuing foreign sales and disregarding the quality of short-term speculation has only smashed the export of Taiwan's agricultural products. It is the Taiwanese farmer who Chen Jizhong, the chairman of the Council of Agriculture, has been talking about it."