Import quota system for corn and other imports to avoid repeating the same mistakes in soybean industry

Wang Zhooming, Zhangxuyue July 21, a "Maria" freighter carrying 61,000 tons of genetically modified maize arrived at Shekou Port of Shenzhen. This batch of corn will be sold to Guangdong as feed.　　However, July 27, China's national grain and oil Information Center said the quality of the imported corn was problematic.　　Abn-amro, an analyst at ABN Amro, said the first shipment arrived in Shenzhen on July 21, but inspectors had found more than 10% of the corn damaged. But this does not affect the enthusiasm of importing American corn.　　On May 13, the USDA said China had purchased 369,000 tonnes of corn from the United States, the largest record of a single Chinese purchase of U.S. corn in 2001 years.　　Pure corn Importer? Cofco has imported 60,000 tonnes of genetically modified corn rice in the United States, close to the domestic import of corn for the entire June, and more than 10 times times the number of corn imports in May. How many American corn will the COFCO group import?　　The COFCO group has not responded positively. In January-May this year, China accumulated 23,500 tonnes of corn imports, and in 2009 the total corn imports were only 2150 tonnes.　　June imports 64,500 tons of corn, of which, June from the United States imports 61,200 tons, imports amounted to 14.8025 million U.S. dollars. and 2010 1-June domestic cumulative export of 80391 tons of corn.　　Soon, U.S. corn will be a constant inflow, imports will be far beyond the mouth, China will become a pure corn importer. Domestic enterprises have received 3.38 million tons of import quotas, including Cofco Group, Kyrgyzstan Grain group, such as large and import oil and export large, but also some private feed production enterprises.　　In 2010, the total corn quota was 7.2 million tonnes.　　Corn worries China's 2009 jade production of 164 million tons, only 1.17% year-on-year decline, which is not enough to trigger a shortage of domestic corn crisis. Eastern Ma Wenfeng, an agricultural analyst, said June, the average wholesale price of China's production area of 1913 Yuan/ton, up 23.7% year-on-year, up 8.9% from the end of last year. In addition, the domestic corn to enjoy the national protective price, and affected by the financial crisis, the U.S. corn prices are very low. If the 8-September shipment, the U.S. corn to the shore price than domestic corn cheaper than 170 yuan.　　The price gap enough to allow domestic feed manufacturers to look to the U.S. cheap corn.　　However, the domestic soybean industry has also faced a similar situation, in the U.S.-led GM soybean under the impact of the domestic soybean industry lost the right to speak, whether the same corn? A corn expert in Shanghai said, "The state has a quota system for wheat, corn, rice and noodles, and in quotas, import tariffs are low, import quotas are high tariffs, and quotas make it difficult for American corn to enter China." Before the soybean industry fall mainly is completely marketization, does not include the tariff quota management. Every year before the country has granted a lot of quotas, companies have not used this to import. "With quotas, import and export of American corn only enterprises to decide, the United States has no right to intervene."