
| Additional import quota |
| Release date:2016-6-15 News sources: |
| Close to a period of time, about whether or not to issue a cotton import quota became the focal issue that the market for cotton and textile industry association as the representative of the textile industry and strive to many additional quota of 170 million tons, but China Cotton Association (hereinafter referred to as "cotton association") on behalf of the opposition. On Friday, the Cotton Association released a report said, as of now, 2006 countries have issued the cotton import quota 259.4 million tons, cotton association suggests that the current domestic cotton resources have been able to meet the supply and need not additional quota. Because the international cotton price is far lower than the price of domestic cotton, textile industry and strive to more than the issue of import quotas in order to be able to use the "cheap" cotton. In early 6, the textile industry association has publicly called for the development and reform of the 1 million 700 thousand tons of additional quota; on Tuesday, there are rumors that the NDRC has a meeting to study whether the issuance of the quota, and led to a sharp decline in cotton prices. For enterprises and cotton farmers of cotton, imported cotton large increases lead to poor sales of the domestic cotton, so cotton enterprises firmly opposed to additional quota, to protect the cotton enterprises and farmers interests. 2006 tariff quota for the. In order to make up for the cotton gap, the country has decided to issue 1 million 500 thousand tons of imported cotton quota outside the tariff quota at the beginning of this year, according to the 5%~40%''''s slip. CCTA in a report said, in May 2006, China''''s imports of cotton 46.4 million tons, reduction from the previous month 2.65 million tons, an increase of 1.88 times. January 2006 ~5 month cumulative imports of tons, an increase of 2.37 times. Cotton this year (may September 2005 to 2006) has imported a total of cotton 315.4 million tons, an increase of 3 times, due to the inside and outside mianjia difference larger. Imported cotton large increase, resulting in poor sales of domestic cotton. Cotton association is expected this year cotton total demand for 10 million tons, last year, China''''s total cotton output 570 million tons, from the perspective of the domestic existing resources, domestic cotton inventory (Agricultural Development Bank loan inventory, and other channel inventory) plus the unused import quotas, basically meet the needs of textile of the year from June to August. After the whirring of the textile industry association additional quota of the important reason is that in July this year to Xinmian listed before, China will be the emergence of 1.7 million tons of cotton supply gap and need to additional quota to make up for. For 2006 situation of cotton production, cotton association in the report said, is expected to cotton acreage this year at about 8000 acres, under normal harvest is expected to total output of about 600 million tons. But this year, plant diseases and insect pests, natural disasters can not be expected, will bring uncertainty to cotton production. According to a survey conducted by the China Cotton Association Branch of farmers cooperation, this spring, mu of cotton production input compared to the same period last year increased by more than 10%, mainly reflected rose 1.4% in the chemical fertilizer, pesticide, rose 8.9%, a 1% rise in plastic sheeting, diesel rose by 9.9%. In addition to anti disaster investment increased, the purchase price of cotton farmers expected value of not less than last year. |