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 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.
