Textile Industry Worries About Us Anti Dumping Final Ruling

In June 28th, the US Department of Commerce issued a notice to make an anti dumping final for braided electric blankets originating in China.

The textile industry is worried that the US side's move is to "ask for directions", and use electric blankets as a relatively unpopular commodity to test the ability and speed of responding to domestic enterprises, which may spread to other types of door textiles.

High anti-dumping recognition

The International Trade Commission of the United States will make a final ruling on anti-dumping cases in August 9th. If it is an affirmative decision, the US Department of Commerce will issue an anti-dumping tax order on the products involved.

"This is only a procedural performance, and the affirmative ruling will be made in August."

First textile network editor in chief Wang Cheng said.

This also means that the anti-dumping investigation case of the US China electric blanket from July last year will have the final result, and the domestic enterprises should not have achieved good results in responding to the lawsuit.

In July last year, the US Department of Commerce issued a notice on filing the case. At the request of JardenConsumerSolutions company of the US company, it decided to carry out anti-dumping investigation on the woven electric blanket originating in China.

The products under investigation include Chinese finished products, semi-finished products and unassembled electric blankets of various sizes and materials.

In January this year, the US Department of Commerce made an initial anti-dumping decision against the case and ruled that the dumping rate of products involved in China was 90.32% to 174.85%.

Now that the final result is out again, the US Department of Commerce has decided to reduce the dumping margin.

Apart from Hong Kong Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Ningbo VICCO Joint Trading Group Co., Ltd. and Ningbo polar hair electrical appliance Co., three separate tax rate application enterprises were found to have a dumping margin of 77.75%, while the rest of Chinese manufacturers still had a dumping margin of 174.85%.

Victor textile chief said, in fact, Vico and hair are both suppliers of JardenConsumerSolutions, while macro electronics is Jarden's rival in the US market.

"Actually, this anti-dumping is mainly aimed at Hong Guo electronics. They are the largest manufacturers of woven electric blankets in China."

Hong Guo Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. declined to speak.

This is a Taiwanese capital company, which mainly produces electric blankets and electric pad products. The products are mainly exported to Europe and America, and each year they produce about 2 million electric blankets and electric heating pads.

Wang said that the electric blanket is only a small category in the export of textiles.

The total export volume of Chinese textiles is as high as about 160000000000 US dollars, while the US Department of Commerce statistics, in 2009, the amount of Chinese woven woven blankets and related products exported to the United States amounted to only 55 million 910 thousand dollars.

But he is worried that the case may trigger a series of incidents of textile friction between China and the United States, triggering anti-dumping investigations of other large textile and clothing products, and even extending to other export markets even under the background of the poor world economy.

The United States is the largest market for domestic electric blanket exports.

In the 1-12 month of 2009, China, the 27 largest export countries in the United States, Japan and the EU were the largest export outlets, accounting for 39%, 31% and 15% of the total domestic exports respectively.

Between 2007 and 2009, the number of electric blanket imported from the United States increased by 70%.

The top three export outlets of domestic electric blankets are Guangdong Shenzhen, Zhejiang Yuyao and Zhejiang Ningbo, accounting for 57%, 21% and 15% respectively.

The most influential Hong Kong Electronics Shenzhen company has pferred most of its capacity to Philippines to avoid high anti-dumping duties.