More Cambodia rice bound for China
China plans to increase its rice import quota from Cambodia next year as the country braces for possible cutbacks by the European Union to limit milled rice imports from least developed countries. Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak said on August 2 that his Chinese counterpart Gao Hucheng agreed at a bilateral trade meeting to increase China’s import of milled rice from Cambodia and to review the import quotas every year, the Khmer Times reported on August 3. Hun Lak, Cambodia Rice Federation’s vice president, told the Khmer Times that both China and Cambodia had already agreed on the import quota of 100,000 tonnes.
