Taiwan Threatens to Take China to WTO in New Spat Over Fruit

Taiwan Threatens to Take China to WTO in New Spat Over Fruit
Sugar apples are displayed in a market in Recife, Brazil, on June 30, 2014. Tony Gentile/Reuters/File Photo
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TAIPEI/BEIJING—Taiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Sunday after Beijing said it would suspend sugar apple and wax apple imports from the island on pest concerns, in the latest spat between the two over fruit.

Relations between Taipei and Beijing, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, are at their lowest in decades, with China increasing political and military pressure to force the island to accept its sovereignty.