China's soybean imports will remain at a high level this year

Introduction: in recent years, China's soybean import has increased dramatically, which directly leads to the difficulty of domestic soybean sales and the serious loss of farmers In response to this situation, China's government has successively issued policies to restrict soybean import First of all, on June 6, 2001, the state promulgated the administrative regulations on the safety of agricultural genetically modified organisms, and then on January 7, 2002, the administrative measures for the safety evaluation of agricultural genetically modified organisms, the administrative measures for the safety of the import of agricultural genetically modified organisms, and the administrative measures for the labeling of agricultural genetically modified organisms were promulgated The measures were implemented from March 20, 2002 The regulations and management measures clearly point out that both foreign enterprises and domestic importers must obtain the GM safety certificate, and the approval time of the certificate is up to 270 days, which makes the soybean import trade in an awkward situation since the second half of 2001 In September 2001, the quality inspection department of the domestic port once implemented strict entry quarantine procedures, resulting in the halt of the arrival of imported soybeans After that, China and the United States reached a consensus at the APEC meeting in Shanghai, and the inspection and Quarantine of China's customs returned to normal However, in order to cooperate with the implementation of the genetically modified policy, AQSIQ issued the measures for the administration of inspection and Quarantine of entry and exit grain and feed, which was implemented on March 1, 2002 The inspection and quarantine procedures for the entry of soybeans were defined legally On March 7, 2002, China and the United States reached an agreement through negotiation to establish a transitional period from March 11 to December 20 before China formally implemented the GM policy During the transitional period, overseas companies can apply for a "temporary certificate" within 30 days, and domestic importers can import GM soybeans with this certificate This actually means that in 2002, the import of soybeans changed from the previous "red light" to "green light", and the import trade of soybeans that just stopped will resume That is to say, strict GM rules can be put aside for the time being The implementation period of March 20 is postponed to December 20 As for how to implement the 2003 GM policy, it is not important at present It is reported that the government will soon issue a tax rebate policy for soybean meal export In order to encourage the export of soybean meal, 13% value-added tax will be refunded Before that, except soybean meal, there was no value-added tax on the export of other feed products Since the second half of last year, due to the low price, the export of soybean meal has increased significantly At the same time, the voice of the export tax rebate of soybean meal has been growing At the same time, encouraging the export is in line with the policy of expanding the export of our country However, raw materials are needed to produce soybean meal The annual output of domestic soybeans is 15.4 million tons Half of them are used for oil extraction, and only 35% of the demand can be met (at present, 21.7 million tons of soybeans are needed for oil extraction in China) The remaining 14 million tons of raw materials are dependent on imported soybeans, while encouraging the export of soybean meal and imported soybeans are complementary without conflict On February 7, 2002, the State Planning Commission issued the number of import tariff quotas for important agricultural products in 2002, application conditions and distribution principles, and announced that the tariff quota for soybean oil in 2002 was 2.518 million tons 2.5 million tons of soybean oil is equivalent to 14 million tons of soybean raw materials Compared with the demand of 3.9 million tons of soybean oil in one year in the domestic market, the quantity is relatively large, because China's domestic soybean can produce 1.2 million tons of soybean oil, so the market share left for imported soybean is only 1 million tons, but in fact, China's soybean import last year reached 13.94 million tons It is obvious that there is a conflict between soybean oil import and soybean import, and there is a relationship between the two In the past, the import of edible oil in China was managed by quota and license, and the import of soybean oil was regulated by the government In the past two years, the oil pressing industry has been developing vigorously The output of soybean oil in the domestic market has been greatly increased, and the supply and demand are also in balance Therefore, the import of soybean oil has been greatly reduced year by year In 1996, China's soybean oil import reached 1.3 million tons In 2000, the soybean oil import dropped to 300000 tons, while in 2001, only 70000 tons were imported Facing the tariff quota of 2.518 million tons of soybean oil in 2002, it is clear that the contradiction of its surplus will not be solved In the interim period of transgenic, the import of domestic soybean is expected to remain at the high level of last year In the past three years, China must appropriately regulate the import of soybean oil, so that there will not be a large influx of overseas soybean oil At that time, the price difference between domestic and foreign soybean oil will gradually shrink, which will also inhibit the influx of imported soybean oil After the abolition of tariff quota in 2006, soybean oil and other edible oil will be imported freely At that time, domestic growers, oil processing enterprises, feed breeding industry, intermediate traders and other parties will have a certain bearing capacity, and the contradiction between market supply and demand will turn into the regulation of the market itself At that time, the market prices of domestic soybean, soybean meal and soybean oil will become the wind vane to regulate and control imported soybean oil and soybean 。 3BF (author:) to feed Weibo to: