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China Pesticide Export Volume rose slightly by 1.4% in 2016 Q1
Source:China Crop Protection Industry Association  author: Ellie Xu
  date: 2016-05-25  
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According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs of PRC, the total import & export volume in 2015 Q1 reached USD 1.16billion, drop by 8.5% year-on-year; trade surplus was USD 0.70 billion, down 9.3% YoY.

 

Table 1   2016 Q 1 Import & Export Statistics Data and Trade Balance (Ten thousand tons, $10thousand, %)

Category

Total Import & Export Volume

Trade Balance

2016 Q1

2015 Q1

YoY

2016Q1

2015 Q1

YoY

Pesticide

116533

127416

-8.5

70601

77868

-9.3

Of which

Insecticide

26165

25057

4.4

14687

15595

-5.8

  Fungicide

20700

20737

-0.2

3054

2164

41.1

    Herbicide

64254

76446

-15.9

52830

60655

-12.9

 

Table 2   2016 Q1  Imp & Export Statistics Data (Ten thousand tons, $10thousand,% )

Category

Imp

Volume

YoY

Value

YoY

Pesticide

2.8

-1.0

22966

-7.3

Of which

Insecticide

0.3

31.6

5739

21.3

   Fungicide

0.9

9.7

8823

-5.0

   Herbicide

1.0

-12.6

5712

-27.7

In 2016 Q1, the pesticide import total volume reached 28000 tons, a decrease of 1.0% YoY, and the import value reached 0.23 billion US dollars, a decrease of 7.3% YoY. The insecticide import total volume reached 3,000 tons, an sharp increase of 31.6% YoY, and imports amounted to 57 million US dollars, up by 21.3% YoY; the fungicide imports volume reached 9,000 tons, up 9.7% YoY, while imports value amounted to 88million US dollars, down 5.0 YoY; the herbicide imports volume reached 10,000 tons, up 12.6% YoY, while imports value amounted to 57 million US dollars, drop 27.7 YoY.

In 2016 Q1, the pesticide export total volume reached 336,000 tons, an increase of 1.4% YoY, and the export value reached 936million US dollars, a decrease of 8.8%. The insecticide export volume was 56,000 tons, up 11.6% YoY, export value was 0.20 billion US dollars, up 0.5%; the fungicide export volume was 24,000 tons, up 20.9% YoY, export value was0.119 billion US dollars, up3.7%; the herbicide export volume was 244,000 tons, down 2.5% YoY, export value was 0.585 billion US dollars; drop 14.6% YoY.

 
 

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