Baku, Azerbaijan, May 17
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Some 30 more businesses were added to the list of Kazakh entities that are allowed to export flour to China, Trend reports referring to the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan.
On May 16, 2016, 30 Kazakh mills entities were added to the China’s register under the guarantee of Kazakhstan Committee of state inspection in Agro-Industrial Complex based on the results of the inspection that was performed by Kazakh quarantine inspectors in the March 2019.
Earlier this year, a Protocol on phytosanitary requirements of the wheat flour that is being exported to China from Kazakhstan was signed. Within the Protocol, the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan and the General Customs Administration of China agreed on the updated requirements to the Kazakh flour.
The Protocol was signed in Beijing on April 26, 2019, as a result of bilateral meeting of Zhenis Kassymbek, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Ni Yuefeng, the Minister of General Customs Administration of the People's Republic of China, in the course of the Second One Belt One Road Forum.
“In January-February 2019, the volume of Kazakh flour export to China amounted to $1,072,700, which is 3.1 percent more than in the same period of last year,” stated State Revenue Committee of Kazakhstan.
According to the report of the Ministry of agriculture of Kazakhstan, as of May 14, 2019, "the volume of Kazakh flour export amounted to 494,300 tons, including 4,010 tons of export to China.”
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