According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs of PRC, the total import & export volume from Jan.to April 2016 reached USD 1.615 billion, down by 7.8% year-on-year; trade surplus was USD 984million, drop by 9.4% YoY.
Table 1 From Jan.to April 2016 Import & Export Statistics Data and Trade Balance ($10thousand,%)
Category total import & export volume Trade Balance From Jan.to April 2016 From Jan.to April 2015 YoY From Jan.to April 2016 From Jan.to April 2015 YoY Pesticide 161480 175067 -7.8 98366 108533 -9.4 Of which Insecticide 35536 35377 0.4 21290 22461 -5.2 Fungicide 29610 29325 1.0 3751 2323 61.5 88480 102657 -13.8 73531 84386 -12.9
Table 2 From Jan. to April 2016 Imp & Export Statistics Data (Ten thousand tons, $10thousand,% )
From Jan. to April 2016, the pesticide import total volume reached 39,000 tons, an increase of 1.5% YoY, and the import value reached 316 million US dollars, a decrease of 5.1%. The insecticide import total volume reached a total of 5,000 tons, an increase of 13.1% YoY, and imports amounted to 71 million US dollars, up by10.3% YoY; the fungicide imports volume reached 13,000 tons, up 6.1% YoY, while imports value amounted to 129 million US dollars, down 4.2 YoY; the herbicide imports volume reached 13,000 tons, up 1.3% YoY, while imports value amounted to 75 million US dollars, drop 18.2% YoY. From Jan. to April 2016, the pesticide export total volume reached 477,000 tons, an increase of 2.2% YoY, and the export value reached 1.3 billion US dollars, a decrease of 8.4% YOY. While the insecticide export volume was 80,000 tons, up 10.2% YoY, export value was 284 million US dollars, down 1.8%; the fungicide export volume was 34,000 tons, up 20.0% YoY, export value was 167million US dollars, up 5.4%; the herbicide export volume was 348,000 tons, down 0.8% YoY, export value was 810 million US dollars; drop 13.4% YoY.