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Guangzhou China April 11, 2011 - In March 2011, Vietnam adjusted export tariff on yellow phosphorus to 5%. Vietnam started the production of yellow phosphorus since 2004; its output reached 30,000 t/a by rapid development and expansion in the past years, and most of the products are mainly for exports.

On 22 February 2011, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Kazak President Nursultan Nazarbayev witnessed the signing ceremony of a strategic cooperation framework agreement between Sinochem Group and Kazakhstan Phosphor Industry Company in Great Hall of the People. Based on the energy cooperation, China and Kazakhstan have built strategic cooperation. China attaches great importance to tie with Kazakhstan, and it is an unswerving policy of China to develop China-Kazakhstan strategic partnership of long-term stability, good-neighborly friendship and win-win cooperation.

Phosphoric acid can be used for rusted iron, steel tools or surfaces and as cleaners by construction trades to remove mineral deposits, cementations smears, and hard water stains. It can also be applied in dentistry and orthodontics as an etching solution, to clean and roughen the surfaces of teeth. The most popular application of phosphoric acid is in food as flavoring agents in some cheeses, jams and jellies, colas and beer.

The latest news shows the general price of phosphorus trichloride will be about USD820/t in March 2011. It can be also seen that the demand for phosphorus trichloride is more from flame retardants and phosphorous acid than pesticide.

CCM’s well-experienced researcher Chao Zhang attended the Second China Stevia 360°Forum 2011. He shared his insightful views on China stevia market in his speech Chinese Position in the Asian High Sweetener Market which was well-received and stirred up heated discussion.

Epoxiconazole, introduced to the market by BASF in 1993, can be found in many products and product mixtures targeting a large number of pathogens in various crops like cereals (mainly wheat, barley, rye and triticale), soybeans, banana, rice, coffee, turnips, and red as well as sugar beets, and it is a fungicide active ingredient from the class of azoles developed to protect crops. In particular, the substance inhibits the metabolism of fungi cells infesting useful plants, and thereby prevents the growth of the mycelia (fungal cells).

According to a recent survey before the annual session of the National People's Congress in Feb. 2011, nearly 70 percent of Chinese consumers expressed objections to genetically modified food, including rice, oil and soymilk. After that, on the annual sessions, members of the national committee of CPPCC had a heated debate on the topic of “Is GM food a ecology helper or a potential killer” since the 12th Five-Year Plan announced to plant genetically modified crops according to related laws. The world displayed different attitudes to genetically food these years. At this very moment, China’s dynamic on GM food will surely attracts the world’s attention.

Various properties of amino acids were studied in Japan and spread to market after the amino acids were found to be responsible for the secret of deliciousness. The Ajinomoto Group, one of the top three manufactures of Amino Acid in the world, has suspended production at the Fukushima Plant because of Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake that hit northern Japan on March 11, 2011. So what is the influence on the development of amino acid Industry?

CCPS (China Crop Protection Summit) 2011, organized by Guangzhou CCM Information Science and Technology Co., Ltd, has achieved great success and wrapped up in Shanghai on Mar.19, 2011. With the principle of sharing the latest industry dynamics to improve the better development of crop protection, experts, scholars and medias around the world and top managers of famous enterprises gathered here to discuss crop protection and related hot topics.

In January, 2011, an American researcher voiced doubts about imidacloprid, a controversial new type of pesticide that may be linked to the collapse of honeybee populations in the US. Is there any ground for this? Will this influence the imidacloprid industry?