China has already taken measures to restrict paraquat, according to CCM International’s May Issue of Herbicides China News.

1. China Takes Restriction on Paraquat
Summary: China has already taken measures to restrict paraquat, according to CCM
International’s May Issue of Herbicides China News.
Tag: pesticide, herbicide, paraquat, paraquat SL, restriction, paraquat technical, paraquat TK,
paraquat manufacturer
CCM International have published the May Issue of Herbicides China News recently, focusing
on paraquat restriction. Regarding whether paraquat will be restricted in China, on April 24, 2012,
three Chinese governmental departments including the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Ministry of
Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and General Administration of Quality Supervision,
Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) jointly released an official announcement in response, that all
paraquat SL is demanded to be withdrawn from the whole Chinese market after July 1, 2016.
Accordingly, a series of relative detailed measures are mentioned in the announcement so as to
back up this decision of paraquat restriction in China:
1. From April 24, 2012, China will stop approving new manufacturers of paraquat technical and
formulation, stop accepting new applications of field experiment, registration and production
permits for paraquat products (covering TK, SL and mixed SL), and stop sanctioning new
registrations and production permits for paraquat products (covering TK, SL and mixed SL).
2. After July 1, 2014, all current registrations and production permits of paraquat SL and mixed
paraquat SL will be canceled in China, except those in paraquat TK manufacturers for paraquat
export to overseas market. And all products of paraquat SL are forbidden to sell and apply in
China after July 1, 2016.
3. Rechecking all product labels and modifying all registrations and production permits according
to the new standard. In detail, new standard demands that paraquat label should additionally
include some key information such as first aid hotline and caution, and all registrations should
additionally cover relative information of technical manufacturers such as manufacturer name.
Thus, the unqualified new paraquat in label, registration or production permit is forbidden to come
into the market after Jan. 1, 2013, and old paraquat registrations and production permits will also
be canceled in the meantime. As to current paraquat products with old labels can be sold only
before Dec. 31, 2013.
4. Current paraquat manufacturers in China must produce eligible paraquat products, which
should be compounded with emetic, odor agents, colorant and so forth.

2. 5. Paraquat manufacturers in China should enhance after-sale services including application
instruction and first aid of poisoning. A series of protection methods in package such as thin
bottleneck of paraquat bottle and medical active carbon are encouraged.
It can be observed that the restriction on paraquat of Chinese government was triggered directly
by the suggestion from chemical experts of UN that paraquat dichlorid should be subject to the
Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure of The Rotterdam Convention, which was mentioned in
March 2011. And this suggestion has already witnessed examination from Evaluation Committee
of The Rotterdam Convention, and will be checked by the conference of contracting party in
2013. It means that paraquat will probably face the risk of being listed into PIC, which will impact
on the circulation of paraquat in the world. (Herbicides China News 1109: Worries about paraquat
aroused in China)
Coupled with the examination process in The Rotterdam Convention, China decided to restrict
paraquat in domestic market, also considering its fatal poisoning trait as well as the future
industrial development direction. As expected by Chinese government these years, pesticide
market in China should be healthy, sustainable and people-oriented, rather than of overcapacity,
stiff competitiveness and severe homogenization.
In the respect of industrial development in Chinese paraquat market, the restriction on paraquat
in China will push the industrial integration to some degree, which is managed by the government
currently in order to tackle overcapacity and severe homogenization in domestic pesticide market.
In detail, weak small paraquat manufacturers who only aim at domestic market will be washed
out, and the leading paraquat enterprises whose targets cover overseas market can stay to enjoy
a potential easy circumstance. In other words, the future paraquat production in China is
expected to centralize in strong paraquat players who own self-exported capacity, and the excess
or weak paraquat capacity in China will be cut off in the meantime. It will be a good prospect for
current Chinese paraquat industry, but the large Chinese market will also be shocked by paraquat
restriction in the meantime.
In terms of current domestic paraquat market where paraquat LS is the major product category,
the restriction on SL will make a large market gap if the proper substitutes can't appear in time.
As a non-selective herbicide with so many years' promotion, paraquat has witnessed fast
development in the past decades in China, and has been playing an increasingly important role in
weed control of orchards, corn fields, no-tillage fields and mulberry fields. In accordance with
CCM International's survey, the output of China's paraquat formulations has grown very fast from
more than 40,000 tonnes in 2006 to nearly 80,000 tonnes in 2010, with the average annual
growth rate of 20%, which is mainly attributed to the rapid growth of domestic and overseas
demand for paraquat during this period.

3. Even though liquid paraquat formulation can be changed to non-liquid paraquat formulation, such
as solid paraquat or powder-like paraquat, which haven't been listed into Chinese governmental
restriction, the objective truth is that it will take lots of financial and human resources to develop
the alternative formulations of paraquat in China and it will also take a long cycle to meet the
outcome.
Of course, in a broader scope, other herbicides such as diquat also can be considered as
substitutes. However, in consideration of characteristics about efficiency, residue, application cost
and so forth, it seems that paraquat is the best of all contact-killing herbicides for the time being.
As to those potential survivors in Chinese paraquat revolution, they will also encounter large
challenges in exploration of overseas market because frequent trade frictions and potential
influence of The Rotterdam Convention will repress paraquat export further in a manner
compared with the situation in the past. In fact, in the world, some countries such as Sweden,
Denmark, Hungary and so forth are resistant to the paraquat application very much. Such
resistance may upgrade if paraquat dichlorid is listed into PIC, and further impact on other original
paraquat importers' decisions in the future trade.
At any rate, facing the restriction on paraquat in China, what paraquat players need to do at
present is the timely strategic adjustment or effective product research. In fact, it can be said that
the governmental restriction on paraquat in China is helpful indirectly for those aggressive
enterprises with strong competitiveness.
(CCM International has already taken an interview about paraquat restriction in China with
Syngenta, the largest paraquat manufacturer in the world. In the interview, Syngenta expressed
its exclusive viewpoints. Please pay closely attention to the next issue of Herbicides China News)
Source: Herbicides China News 1205
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_11.html
Content of Herbicides China News 1205:
ChemChina runs asset reorganization in Sanonda
Asset exchange proceeds in Shandong Dacheng
Huapont invests in Wanquan Hongyu and Wanquan Kaidi
China takes restriction on paraquat

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……
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