According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs of PRC, the total import & export volume in 2015 reached USD 4.29billion, drop by 12.6% year-on-year; trade surplus was USD2.79 billion, down 17.2% YoY.
In 2015, the pesticide export total volume reached 1,175,000 tons, an increase of 1.2%, and the export value reached 35.46 billion US dollars, a sharp decrease of 14.5%. While the fungicide export volume and value keep growth, respectively up by 10.2% and 5.3%. Although both the export volume and price dropped, the proportion of pesticide formulations exports out of the total pesticide export keeps growing and has become the main export force, while the proportion of pesticide TC exports kept dropping year by year.
2015 Export Statistics Data
Over the same period, the pesticide import total volume reached a total of 90,000 tons, while imports amounted to 0.749 billion US dollars, respectively down by2.7% and 2.8%.