AreaChina (Mainland)

Commodity GroupGrains

CommodityWheat

Date01/10/2016

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentImport quota

DescriptionEstablished an import quota system which only allows 10 percent of the allocated import quota to private buyers, with the rest allocated to the state-owned companies. The wheat import quota for 2017 has been set at around 9.64 million tonnes, unchanged from 2016.