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In all <strong>the</strong> pesticide produced in China, insecticides shares 48.9 percent, fungicides shares
10.5 percent and herbicide shares 26.4 percent.
Every batch <strong>of</strong> pesticides import or export should get a certificate, which issue by ICAMA,
and show it to <strong>the</strong> Customs, <strong>the</strong> certificate shows <strong>the</strong> pesticide has been registration and could be sold
in China. So ICAMA has <strong>the</strong> data for almost all <strong>the</strong> data on pesticides name, quantity, value and
export or import.
In China, NDARC require enterprises to collect and record <strong>the</strong> data on manufacture and
treading, NDARC and CPIA cooperate toge<strong>the</strong>r.
There is a problem with illegal trade in pesticides. The registration <strong>of</strong> pesticide should spend
a long time and cost lots <strong>of</strong> money so illegal trade in pesticides will never stop. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand,
since some chemicals are multi-functional, it is difficult to distinguish <strong>the</strong> use to <strong>the</strong> Customs. A few
pesticides pass through Customs in <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> intermediate material or o<strong>the</strong>rs. But it isn’t a serious
problem, with <strong>the</strong> communicating <strong>of</strong> ICAMA with <strong>the</strong> Customs, <strong>the</strong> quantity <strong>of</strong> illegal trade in
pesticides is reducing step by step, and <strong>the</strong>re is a small quantity <strong>of</strong> illegal trade by now.
E. Selected standards
MOA and NDARC control <strong>the</strong> high toxicity pesticides strictly in processing and using in
China. According to <strong>the</strong> Regulations on Pesticide Administration, extremely and high toxicity
pesticides are forbidden to use on vegetable, fruit, tea, Chinese medicine herbs, melon and public
health. To reduce <strong>the</strong> acute poisoning, environmental contamination and crop residues, five OPs with
high acute toxicity, i.e. methamidophos, parathion, parathion–methyl, phosphamidon and
monocrotophos have been forbidden to be registered as mixture formulation and as single ingredient
formulation; <strong>the</strong>y could be registered only by TG plants and could be used on cotton, maize, rice and
wheat only. By <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> 2006, <strong>the</strong>re is no formulation registration and use on any crop in China.
These compounds were produced and used plentiful. So, to replace <strong>the</strong> compounds in <strong>the</strong> market, <strong>the</strong>
government invests more than 60 million US Dollars to research o<strong>the</strong>r compounds formulation
(lower toxicity and more environmentally friendly) and agriculture method. In o<strong>the</strong>r hand, <strong>the</strong>
investing will give <strong>the</strong> plants too which used to produce mentioned compounds to do <strong>the</strong> new
products R&D and set up new equipments. O<strong>the</strong>r banned ingredients are list as below:
Pesticides Banned to Produce and Use
Pesticides Time <strong>of</strong> enforcement
Arsenic, Acetate, Mercury compounds, Late 1960’s to early 1970’s
Dieldrin and Aldrin
Fluoroacetamide 1982
BHC, DDT, Dibromochloropropane, Dikushuang 1983
Ethylene dibromide 1984
Cyhexatin 1986
Chlordimeform Promulgated in 1990 and enforced in 1992
Iminoctadine (Befran) 1990
Tetramine, Silatrane 1991
Gliftor 1995
Nitr<strong>of</strong>en Promulgated in 1997, production banned in 2000
and use enforced in 1992
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