subject: In 2009 Highlighted The Import And Export Of Plant Extracts Active Force Driving The Export Of [print this page] Contrast with the overall foreign trade, China's medical and health products exceptional performance in 2009, import and export volume grew 9.8%. Import and export of plant extracts are more prominent, and import and export volume reached 820 million U.S. dollars, up 36.1%; which exports 660 million U.S. dollars, up 23.7%; imports amounted to 160 million U.S. dollars, up 129.2 percent.
Chinese plant extracts export accounted for 44.8% of merchandise exports, merchandise exports of Chinese medicine is driving the initiatives.
Food additives and plant extracts of popular flavors and fragrances
2009 plant extracts is not affected by the financial crisis, exports remained stable, showing only slight fluctuations in the first half of the exports, rapid growth in the second half of most of the present month, in September year on year increase of nearly 100%.
Monthly imports were less stable than exports, volatility is significantly larger. Particularly in the fourth quarter, imports of year, all showed a substantial increase in the chain. Increase in the fourth quarter of the larger species imported mainly glycyrrhetate its glycosides, also part of the food imports increase with the plant extract is also obvious.
Certain plant extracts industry cluster effect, provincial and municipal distinctive plant extracts industry. For example: the production of food additives in Shandong Province uses mainly plant extracts, and Zhejiang, and Shanghai to produce pharmaceutical and health care products mainly use plant extracts. Statistically, in 2009 the export of food additives and flavors and fragrances of plant extracts based provinces, exports have increased substantially, such as: Shandong and Jiangxi, Stevia extract higher export growth, export growth in Yunnan flavors and fragrances also obvious . Export of medicinal and health products with plant extracts of provinces, exports declined slightly, such as Zhejiang and Beijing.
Exports from the company ranks can be seen, and the export structure to stevia extract and natural pigments such as food additives based enterprises rank among the top management structure of the product to pharmaceutical and health care products based export enterprises plant extracts ranked slightly decline.
Sort by exports in 2009, ranking exporter of plant extracts were as follows: high-tech Ganzhou Ju Long Industrial Co., Ltd., Hebei morning natural pigment Co., Ltd., Ningbo Green Health Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shanghai Tsumura Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Qingdao Run German Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone Mai Fu Biological Products Co., Ltd., Beijing green gold may Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Sinochem (Qingdao) Industrial Co., Ltd., Tak Hong (Zhuhai) Flavors and Fragrances Co., Ltd., Xi'an Haotian biotechnology limited liability company.
Stevia extract thriving
Strong Sales for 2009, exports of goods kind of goes, plant extracts and its derivatives in Hong glycosides, Stevia extracts.
Glycoside and its derivatives in Hong Yun International demand is relatively stable, compared to exports remained steady at around one million U.S. dollars per month, prices rose slightly in the second half, especially to the December price increase significantly.
Licorice extract is mainly used for juice and food and tobacco industries, the price is relatively stable. Volatile month of exports, the main factors of economic instability in the monthly number of transactions in the second quarter export volume fluctuations, the average export price in the fourth quarter showed significant gains.
Stevia extract is a 2009 single species of plant extracts the most rapid growth of a species. Stevia extract exports in 2009 reached 84.3 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 132%; its price shows a pattern of slow growth, only in October and November see a turning point low, the market remains optimistic about the future.
India, Malaysia to double the market growth rate
2009 plant extracts of national export performance is the most eye-catching in India and Malaysia, up more than 100% increase. Both the market and outstanding performance last year, similar to the Mexican market, are due to the sharp rise in single-commodity exports led the market trend.
India's merchandise exports are more concentrated in natural colors, flavors and fragrances and other plant extracts; while Malaysia's merchandise exports over 90% Stevia extract, these products are widely used in food processing.
Japan and the United States remained China's plant extracts the two most important export market. Japanese market is relatively stable, plant extracts prices and export volumes have remained stable in the growth momentum, the Japanese import of the majority of plant extracts from Chinese herbs Japanese companies invested enterprises in China to complete the preliminary extraction of medicinal products, such as Japan, Tsumura, etc. enterprise. U.S. exports large increase over the previous year, mainly because the export price of U.S. extract significantly increase, an average of 49.5%.
Waiting for demand pick up
In 2009 the world trade environment under adverse conditions, plant extracts still get good results. We believe that with the 2010 financial crisis, further away, the world trade environment gradually improved, the international community to the needs of plant extracts will be significantly increased, then it will usher in a period of vigorous development.
