European Chemicals Association (ECHA) once published a report about under which kind of conditions chemicals can be registered as intermediates, also when distributors should submit the completed dossiers. (Registration of intermediate needs less dossier than chemicals). This report represented the comments of ECHA,EU committee and members of EU.

The contents of the report are based on the views of ECHA, REACH and CARACAL in charge of the CLP legislation. The industry circle commentted according to these views, and the report is also including those comments made by them. However, “This explain comes from EU committee and ECHA, but Industry circus does not agree with that” says Erwins Annys the authorized expert of ECHA and instructor of REACH..

Meanwhile, Erwins also supplement that some catalyst and chemical reactants used in production reveal two problems. If the catalyst or reactants could be regarded as intermediate while registration is submitted, it depends on exact conditions.

Furthermore, ECAH has already re-clarify the definition of intermediate，“Intermediate is under the purpose of manufacturing chemicals, not every reactants could be defined as Intermediate, the critical point is react into another reactants itself.

This report will be published in the latest amendment of “Direction of Intermediate”. but it will not revised until 30^th Nov 2010. We will see a more completed REACH after clarified the different interpretation of intermediate formally.

By Ben

The following is the statistics of Chinese pesticides import and export figures during the first quarter of 2010. As before, the first season is a thriving one, from January to March, the total import volume was 17,100 tons, 10.32% more than the previous season. Along with the new tax refund policy, there was a substantial appreciation of export volume. During January to March, export volume was 166,200 tons (24.68% more than last season), and the sum was USD489, 000,000 (25.01% more compared to previous season).

The export volume was mainly contributed by herbicides and insecticides with 86,500 tons and 25,300 tons respectively. In comparison with the total pesticides export volume, herbicides constituted to 52.03% and insecticides accounted for 15.24%. Both increased more than 10% compared to last season.

Now the summer is coming. We might face an off-season of the pesticides business due to the reason that most factories in China would close some production lines for inspection or to avoid bad odour especially irritative in summer. Anyway, Psychem would be here all the time to offer customers all walks of the world the current situation.

(Data quoted from Ifeng.com)

By Jane

The latest news published on official website of Ministry of Finance People's Republic of China said that tax rebate for Glyphosate technical will be fully cancelled starting from July 15. Another product which is also on the list is Endosulfan technical. This means that there will be no tax refund for the active ingredients and it will caused 9% increase in the prices.

The new tax rebate policy will be applied to more than 200 export commodities, other commodities including pharmaceutical products, steel metal, rubber, glass etc.

By Lynn