SMU ECONOMICS Intelligence Club

Authors: Jade Yong Yu Jia, Khadijah Syahidah Pinardi Research Head: Jade Yong Yu Jia Editors: Sasthaa Gingee Babu (Uday) Abstract Beijing abruptly announced that they would start banning Taiwan’s pineapple from its market due to biosecurity reasons per 1 March 2021. This new regulation applied heavily impacted Taiwan, a country that exported more than 90% of its Pineapple harvest to China. This paper explores China's current ban on Taiwan pineapples, Taiwan and other countrie