November 3, 2022

More than 100 Brazilian firms have been approved to export corn to China

 

China's General Administration of Customs has approved 136 Brazilian traders, cooperatives and facilities to export corn to China, Argus Media reported.

The terminals approved include Tgg, Teg, Cutrale, T12a and T39 at Santos; Interalli, Cargill, Rocha, and Bunge at Paranagua; and Amaggi, and Viterra at Itaqui.

Jose Guilherme Leal, Brazil's agriculture ministry's defence secretary, said the list of authorised facilities and traders was sent by Brazil's ministry of agriculture. Since then, traders have been waiting for GACC to formally disclose the list it received from the Brazilian government and start issuing import permits.

Only three of the 45 approved entities on a previous list from Brazil's agriculture ministry, which was made available to Argus last month and contained 16 different companies' names, belonged to port terminals, frustrating market participants.

The Brazilian agriculture ministry has received certification requests from a total of about 600 units. Leal stated that the inspection work is still ongoing and that a new list of recently accredited units will be published between December and January.

In May, Brazil and China signed a deal on sanitary standards for grain imports, which updated quarantine regulations. However, it was decided in August that there would be no need for on-farm controls for corn that had already been harvested during the 2021–22 crop year. The agreement had originally planned for exports to start in the 2022–23 crop year.

From that point forward, the units of businesses that had requested the required phytosanitary certificate to export corn to China were checked by the Brazilian ministry of agriculture. Brazil must demonstrate to China that its cargo is free of any of the 18 pests listed in the protocol the two nations signed.

-      Argus Media