On August 14, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments issued statement on the redistribution of import tariff quota of agricultural products in 2020, the main contents include the end user holding 2020 wheat, corn, rice, cotton, sugar import tariff quota, when not all the quota import contracts, or import contracts have been concluded but not from the initial port of shipment before the end of the year, is expected by which shall be the amount of the tariff quotas or cannot complete unfinished part of back home to National Development and Reform Commission on September 15, the competent department of commerce. The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce will redistribute the returned quotas. The applicant enterprise should submit the application materials of redistribution to the local development and reform commission and the competent commercial department from September 1 to 15.

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For thousands of years, wine has been one of the main drinks in human life. China has a long history of winemaking, with a wide variety of wines which are well-known worldwide. In 2019, China's wine exports were 490 million liters, and the export value was 7.73 billion yuan. The top three exporting countries or regions are: Hong Kong, ASEAN, and South Korea. Hong Kong is China's largest wine export trade region. From the perspective of the structure of export wines, liquor is the main export variety, accounting for 59.4% of the export volume; followed by beer, accounting for 22.8% of the export volume; rice wine accounting for 2.2%...

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On August 20, the National People's Congress (NPC) is soliciting public comments on the second draft of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law of the People's Republic of China , with a deadline of September 30, 2020.The main content of the draft amendment includes that the department in charge of animal epidemic prevention is described as "the department in charge of agriculture and rural areas (animal husbandry and veterinary)".Article 51 of the draft amendment stipulates that those requiring non-edible wildlife shall be subject to strict examination and approval and quarantine inspection in accordance with relevant state regulations.

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On August 14, 2020, the National Health Commission issued an announcement of 21 kinds of "Novel foods" including protein glutaminase. According to the provisions of the Food Safety Law, the review agency organized experts to review and pass the safety evaluation materials of 5 novel food additives including protein glutaminase and 16 new food-related products including microfibrillated cellulose pulp.

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