In 2017, Jiangsu Huaian entered the 3400 standard un-combed cotton containers from three countries: Australia, India and the United States. The inspection and quarantine departments detected 51 species and 80 kinds of pests, down 8% on a year-on-year basis, and no quarantine pests were detected.

Cotton is one of the major imported agricultural products in China. It is easy to carry pests and once ingested, it can bring huge agricultural economic losses. Compared to combed cotton, the uncombined cotton is not combed to separate fibers, removing only cottonseeds, and is more likely to carry the epidemic. In 2017, for the first time in Huai'an area, pests such as Australian stinkbug, Red stink bug, brown leather stink bug, alfalfa leaf icon, Indian black fur beetle, horizontal beetle, vespectae were intercepted. Among them, the apple ear beaks detected in the containers entering Australia were intercepted for the first time in the country.

Due to poor storage conditions in ports and shipping conditions in India, there are relatively more cases of Indian cotton outbreaks, mainly carrying storage pests and food seeds, mostly in the general outbreak. Australian cotton, the United States cotton for mechanical picking, easy to mix in weeds and seeds, cotton imports Huai'an concentrated in the annual 6-September, due to local weather, the container will be moths, bugs, A and other insects to enter the United States Cotton shipped from January to April every year, the temperature is not high, so few insects, quarantine situation is relatively good.

In order to strengthen the supervision and control of cotton, the inspection and quarantine departments strictly carry out the work of gravitation, sampling and quarantine inspection on imported cotton. On the one hand, the quality of imported cotton is guaranteed and the quantity of imported cotton meets the import requirements. On the one hand, it urges enterprises to handle imported cotton under the requirements of epidemic prevention Materials to avoid the risk of spread of exotic pests.

Inspection and quarantine departments to remind the majority of imported cotton enterprises in the purchase of cotton abroad, pay attention to review the qualifications of suppliers, the preferred AQSIQ registered and better credit suppliers, always concerned about the inspection and quarantine departments issued a warning notice on imported cotton , To circumvent the downgrade of credit rating overseas suppliers and high quality areas of imported cotton.