date:Mar 14, 2013
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service has been issuing new certificates during the 60-day grace period. Starting March 20, China will only accept new certificates for U.S. dairy products.
Since 2010, China has maintained that the previous health certificate, which dates back to 2007, did not meet its requirements and needed to be renegotiated. For the past few years, China had agreed to allow continued imports of U.S. dairy products under the legacy certificate as