Reuters: US soybeans arrive in China, the inspection will take one month

Introduction: new page 1 on Monday, a Chinese commodity inspection official said that the first U.S soybean ship of the year had arrived at Yantai port in northern China at the weekend, and the inspection time for this ship is expected to be as long as one month The market will pay close attention to the fate of this year's first US soybean as a test of China's import system Due to the recent implementation of very strict quarantine and inspection procedures in China, coupled with the new regulatory regulations on genetically modified food, there are many uncertainties in China's soybean import trade This ship was ordered before June 6 China issued an unclear regulation on the regulation of genetically modified organisms on June 6, which traders said resulted in a de facto standstill in China's soybean orders to the United States because of concerns that soybean freighters might not be able to pass more stringent quarantine procedures "It may take about a month for comprehensive quarantine results to come out," a commodity inspection official at Yantai port in Shandong Province said in a telephone interview with Reuters "We can't do some local tests, for example, for some specific bacteria, so we need to send samples to Beijing for testing," he said "Commodity inspection officials boarded the ship on Sunday for preliminary inspection," he said About 60000 tons of soybeans will be unloaded from the ship on Monday and stored in a designated quarantine warehouse in Yantai, traders and officials said Two more U.S soybeans are on the way and are expected to arrive at Dalian port in northern China in mid November, traders from an international trade bank said "So far, these U.S soybeans shipped to China have been ordered before June 6," traders said U.S exporters have been lobbying their governments to urge China to remove what they see as unfair trade barriers "The U.S government is working with China to resolve this issue," said one industry source They are communicating with the Chinese authorities " Last week, the U.S government submitted a statement to China that 70% of U.S soybeans, which are genetically modified, are safe for humans, animals and the environment and have been approved for use in the United States for six years But an official from China's Ministry of Agriculture said he had not seen the documents 7DH