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2014-10-16
China Pesticide Exports Stable in H1 2014
China pesticide export volume remained flat at 892,700 tons in the first half of 2014 just a slight decrease of 1.5% compared to the same period last year. The value of pesticide exports increased by 3.8% up to 4.667 billion USD. The percentage of pesticide technical materials continued to drop in both volume and value. Volume of imports maintained double digital growth to some 40,100 tons and the value was 423 million USD, a modest growth of 2% than last year. On day two of the Chemical Regulatory Annual Conference 2014, Mr. Zhang Wenjun, Division Director of International Exchange and Service from ICAMA provided some interesting statistics on China’s pesticide exportation and importation as well as the recent updates on pesticide import/export management.
2014-10-14
China Published Environmental Risk Assessment Test Guidelines for Chemical Pesticide
On 10 Oct. 2014, China AQSIQ and SAC (Standardization Administration of China) held a press conference announcing the official release of environmental assessment test guidelines for chemical pesticides. These guidelines were all published in Chinese national standa
2014-10-13
China Pesticide Industry-US Imposes New Duties on Chinese Trichloroiso Cyanuric Acid (TCCA) Producers
On 9 Oct 2014, the US International Trade Commission made its final decision on its anti-dumping lawsuit targeting Chinese produced and imported trichloroiso cyanuric acid(TCCA). The commission determined that Chinese TCCA was currently a subsidized imported product and that in future new duties will be imposed on imported TCCA from China.
2014-10-11
National Expert Committee Permits Syngenta’s Isopyrazam Full Registration in China
On 8 Oct 2014, MoA’s official website published the meeting minutes of the 15th session of the 8th National Expert Committee for Pesticide Registration which announced the approval of full registration on 15 new pesticides of 9 novel active ingredients in China, which includes Syngenta’s isopyrazam, Dow’s Aminopyralid and BASF’s Intium. 
2014-09-28
New Pesticide Regulation to be Discussed in Upcoming SC Executive Meeting
Mr. Sui announced that the second revised draft of the new pesticide regulation was completed and agreed upon by other ministries. The legal text will be submitted to the Executive Meeting of the State Council for further discussion, which will be held during October 2014. If approved by the State Council the new regulation would be promulgated shortly after.
2014-09-24
China Terminates Registration of Pesticides for Export Only
Mr. Zhang revealed that the competent authority of manufacturing management is to issue a special document for the production of pesticides for export only. With the uncertainty surrounding the current and future management of pesticide for export only it is recommended that affected companies communicate and interact with competent authorities at this crucial stage.
2014-09-18
Registering Minor-Crop Pesticides in China to be Greatly Facilitated
80% of minor crop vegetables and two thirds of the perennial pests that affect minor crops have no suitable registered pesticides for certain conditions.For these reasons a draft of “Special Provision on Registration for Vegetable and Specialty Crop Use Pesticide” has been compiled and will be implemented in the near future. 
2014-09-09
China Pesticide Registration-MoA Approves 190 Labs for Pesticide Registration
On 29 Aug 2014, China MoA issued announcement 2148, releasing the list of 190 testing facilities approved for pesticide registration testing. These labs were all inspected and approved by the MoA and test reports from these testing facilities will be acceptable during pesticide registration.
2014-08-27
China Agricultural GMO Regulations- Safety Certificates of GM Rice and Maize Expired
The remaining Agricultural GMO safety certificates of food crop, the Cry1Ab/Cry1Ac, the Bt63 and phytase enzyme maize were all expired on the 17th Aug 2014. As the safety certificates were not renewed in time, at this stage there can be no further commercialization of these GMOs in China.
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