China pesticide trade situation unoptimistic in 2015

Highlight

•  Export volume and value both dropped for the first time in recent 5 years 
•  Proportion of techincal export continuously went down while formulation stepped ahead
•  Top 30 exported pesticides ranked by value in 2015 disclosed
•  Top 10 pesticides with export value surpassed $ 100 million accounted 38% of the total export value, withglyphosate still ranked No.1
•  Top 10 pesticides with export value grew most rapidly in 2015
•  Top 10 pesticides with export value dropped most rapidly in 2015
•  Top 10 export destination of China pesticide in 2015

The 10th China Pesticide Industry Development International Forum hosted by CCPIT Sub-council of Chemical Industry was held in Shanghai in 8, March. At the conference, Zhang Wenjun, the director of ICAMA international communication and service department released the data of China pesticide import & export situation in 2015. According to him, China has experienced for the first time in 5 years the rundown of both pesticide import and export, of which export volume and value decreased 8.06% and 16.87% to 1,509,500 tons and $ 7.283 billion respectively, import volume and value down by 14.21% and 8.88% to 57,600 tons and $ 678 million.

Proportion of techincal export continuously went down

Year	Volume (tons)	YOY	Percentage	Value （$ million）	YOY	Percentage
2011	654,000		46.42%	3,919		63.22%
2012	742,600	13.55%	46.43%	5,121	30.66%	65.12%
2013	629,300	-15.26%	38.80%	5,082	-0.75%	59.63%
2014	616,800	-1.98%	37.57%	5,028	-1.06%	57.40%
2015	54.56	-11.54%	36.15%	42.61	-15.27%	58.50%

 

Proportion of formulation export rising continuously

Year	Volume (tons)	YOY	Percentage	Value （$ million）	YOY	Percentage
2011	754,800		53.58%	2,280		36.78%
2012	856,800	13.52%	53.57%	2,742	20.30%	34.88%
2013	992,700	15.86%	61.20%	3,441	25.47%	40.37%
2014	1024,900	3.25%	62.43%	3,732	8.46%	42.60%
2015	963,800	-5.96%	63.85%	3,022	-19.02%	41.50%

 

The top 10 pesticides ranked by export value in 2015 are: glyphosate (glyphosate -isopropylammonium included), paraquat, imidacloprid, clethodim, chlorpyrifos, atrazine, dicamba, abamectin, sulfentrazone, chlorothalonil, thiodicarb, acephate, tebuconazole, chlorantraniliprole, 2,4-D, albendazole, glufosinate-P, azoxystrobin, mancozeb, bifenthrin, emamectin, cartap, lambda-cyhalothrin, fipronil, 2,4-D methyl amine salt, propiconazole, fomesafen, picloram, haloxyfop-P-methyl, acetamiprid, with half of which recorded both going down of export volume and value. The top 30 exported pesticide totaled at $ 4.249 billion and 1,067,000 tons that accounting for 58.3% and 70.7% respectively for all the pesticide exported this year. Exported value of glyphosate , imidacloprid and atrazine dropped twice the number than that of export volume. In the case of paraquat, export value dropped significantly even the volume increased. 

Top 10 pesticide with export value surpassed $ 100 million

No.	Product	Volume (tons)	YOY	Percentage	Value （$ million）	YOY	Percentage
1	Glyphosate	526400	-14.53%	34.87%	1,273	-39.24%	17.48%
2	Paraquat	181400	22.75%	12.02%	443	-15.79%	6.09%
3	Imidacloprid	21700	-7.86%	1.43%	224	-29.34%	3.08%
4	Clethodim	16800	52.42%	1.11%	144	47.07%	1.98%
5	Chlorpyrifos	27200	-24.71%	1.80%	133	-27.47%	1.83%
6	Atrazine	40800	-14.95%	2.70%	120	-30.49%	1.65%
7	Dicamba	7500	16.51%	0.49%	117	5.55%	1.60%
8	Abamectin	10400	8.18%	0.69%	109	49.15%	1.50%
9	Sulfentrazone	4000	11.98%	0.27%	106	9.46%	1.46%
10	Chlorothalonil	24600	13.45%	1.63%	100	19.38%	1.37%
-	-	860800	-	57.01%	2,769	-	38.04%

 
Top 10 pesticides with export value grew most rapidly in 2015

No.	Product	Value ($ million)	YOY	Percentage
1	Emamectin benzoate	21.95	276.50%	0.30%
2	Hexazinone	25.24	60.25%	0.35%
3	Chlorfenapyr	16.7	53.21%	0.23%
4	Glufosinate-P	78.88	50.33%	1.08%
5	Abamectin	108.97	49.15%	1.50%
6	Clethodim	144.13	47.07%	1.98%
7	Imazameth	15.61	32.63%	0.21%
8	Prodiamine	39.63	31.70%	0.54%
9	Pendimethalin	37.35	29.42%	0.51%
10	Haloxyfop-P-methyl	50.81	25.77%	0.70%

 

Top 10 pesticides with export value dropped most rapidly in 2015

No.	Product	Value ($ million)	YOY	Percentage
1	Rich-d-trans allethrin	14.92	-55.15%	0.20%
2	Acephate	94.6	-54.38%	1.30%
3	Metamitron	18.66	-51.93%	0.26%
4	Clopyralid	21.29	-51.12%	0.29%
5	Metribuzin	43.38	-43.09%	0.60%
6	Carbofuran	28.3	-41.52%	0.39%
7	Glyphosate	1,272.65	-39.24%	17.48%
8	Pretilachlor	18.55	-37.56%	0.25%
9	Dichlorvos	20.46	-36.22%	0.28%
10	Methomyl	97.28	-33.15%	1.34%

 

Pesticide export destination of China covered more than 180 countries and districts in 2015, with over 20 countries’ export value surpassed $ 100 million, amounted 1,011,000 tons and $ 5.18 billion in volume and value, making up 67.0% and 71.1% of the total. These countries are (ranged by value): US, Brazil, Australia, Argentina, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Israel, Russia, Nigeria, Columbia, South Africa, Japan, France, Turkey, Belgium, Singapore, Mexico, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Export value of 19 countries suffered negative growth expect for Australia, Russia, France, Belgium and Mexico. The volume and value of pesticide exported to US and Brazil recorded 236,000 tons and $ 1.6 billion respectively, accounting for 15.9% and 21.9% of all the pesticide exported overseas from China.

Top 10 export destination of China pesticide in 2015

No.	Country	Value ($ million)	YOY	Percentage
1	US	977.64	-1.56%	13.42%
2	Brazil	617.56	-26.57%	8.48%
3	Australia	394.72	1.89%	5.42%
4	Argentina	308.58	-35.20%	4.24%
5	Vietnam	298.62	-14.86%	4.10%
6	Thailand	258.97	-17.04%	3.56%
7	India	247.46	-19.88%	3.40%
8	Indonesia	242.28	-29.36%	3.33%
9	Pakistan	186.69	-12.73%	2.56%
10	Nigeria	163.96	-43.49%	2.25%
-	-	3,696.48	-	50.76%

 

Peticide import in recent 5 years

Year	Volume	YOY	Value($ million)	YOY
2011	43,900	-	521	-
2012	53,500	21.8%	564	8.2%
2013	62,200	16.3%	698	23.8%
2014	67,200	7.9%	745	6.7%
2015	57,600	-14.2%	678	-8.9%

 

For 5 years, pesticide import volume and value keep between 50,000 and 70,000 tons and $ 500-750 million with the first 3 years grew rather rapidly while the later 2 years slowed down and in 2015 dropped to negative growth.

Import pesticide categories in 2015

Year	Category	Volume	Percentage	Value($ million)	Percentage
2015	Herbicide	1.93	33.5%	1.56	22.9%
2015	Insecticide	1.49	25.9%	2.07	30.6%
2015	Fungicide	2.29	39.8%	2.96	43.3%
2015	Rodenticide	0.01	0.1%	0.0026	0.04%
2015	PGR	0.04	0.7%	0.21	3.1%

 

In all three major categories, fungicide ranked first with export value of $ 294 million, making up 43.3% of total export value. Insecticide and herbicide exported $ 207 million and 156 million in 2015, making up 30.6% and 22.9% of the total respectively.

 

Source:        AgroPages.com