AreaChina (Mainland)
Commodity GroupOilseeds, oils and meals
CommoditySoybeans, soyoil, soymeal, rapeseed oil, palm oil
Date01/07/2019
Policy CategoryTrade
Policy InstrumentImport policy (trade mitigation measures)
DescriptionFrom July 2019 to September 2019: Launched new efforts in parallel with the countrys protracted trade negotiations with the United States to expand the nations import options for oilseeds and derived products. More specifically, i) imports of soybeans, soybean meal, rapeseed meal and sunflower meal from the Russian Federation were approved; ii) plans to remove soybean oil, rapeseed oil and palm oil from its list of products subject to import tariff quota management were announced; iii) soymeal imports from selected crushers in Argentina were approved; and iv) the possibility of importing soymeal from Brazil was explored.
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