China and Korea prepare for war...garlic war

The Korean and Chinese governments are heading into conflict, over garlic.
May 08, 2001
If you are a Korean mobile or petrochemical company, chances are that you will be importing some components from China: perhaps some plastic mouldings for phones or hydrocarbons for the petrochemicals plants. However, recent reports also suggest that you will have to import garlic. Yes garlic.

According to the Yonhap News Agency and Dow Jones, the Korean government is urging its mobile and petrochemical companies to buy Chinese garlic. This stems back to an agreement signed last summer between China and Korea that said the Korean Agricultural and Forestry Ministry will import 10,300 tons of Chinese garlic at $550 per ton.

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