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Republic of Korea: Export restriction on surgical face masks

Announcement

26 Feb 2020

February 26th, 2020 - The South Korean government announced an export restriction.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

26 Feb 2020

Revocation date:

05 Apr 2020

Announced: 26 Feb 2020
Export quota
On February 26th, 2020, the South Korean government, specifically, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, released Notice 2020-13 (hereafter, 'Notice'), which put in place emergency controls on the sup...
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