Wenzhou Leather Shoes Will Be Set Up "Message Tree"

With the weakening of the international market demand, the appreciation of the RMB exchange rate and the increase of costs, the growth of Zhejiang's foreign trade is still facing great challenges. Among them, the increase of international trade frictions has become one of the main obstacles.

From yesterday's press conference held by the provincial government information office, we learned that in 1-8 months of this year, our province had experienced 55 cases involving international trade frictions, and the amount involved exceeded 1 billion US dollars, up 40% over the same period last year.

(30%) the international trade friction originated in Zhejiang. In recent years, the head of an air conditioning cut-off valve in Shaoxing has been worried.

Busy with contacting foreign clients, they are busy consulting lawyers and competent departments.

In the first half of this year, the United States launched anti-dumping investigations on China's air conditioning cut-off valves and their spare parts, and two involved enterprises across the country were concentrated in Shaoxing, involving an amount of US $15 million.

"After so many years of foreign trade, I didn't expect it to be our turn."

The company official said.

The head of a standard steel pipe enterprise in Huzhou has the same feeling.

Earlier this year, the company received a notice from the US government about verification of countervailing investigations. Before the Canadian government had issued the same verification requirements, the latest arbitration results were not optimistic.

"There are two investigations at once."

Zhejiang is a major province of China's foreign trade and a key area of international trade barriers.

This year, Zhejiang enterprises have repeatedly received similar news, and more and more industries are implicated.

In July this year, the European Commission issued an official announcement announcing anti-dumping investigations on seamless steel tubes originating in China.

This is the seventh anti-dumping investigation made by the European Union to China's steel products and products since last year.

In the same month, the US Department of Commerce launched an anti-dumping investigation and countervailing investigation on the trailing grassland maintenance equipment and related components in China (the "double counter investigation"). This is the twelfth double investigation conducted by the United States against me (fourth cases this year).

In May, the South African International Trade Administration Committee also asked for anti-dumping investigations on stainless steel sink originating from or imported from China. Many enterprises in Ningbo also involved in the anti-dumping investigation.

Australia also launched countervailing investigations on China's toilet paper, and Zhejiang enterprises were also immune from it.

According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation, in 2002 -2008 August, our province suffered 296 cases of trade friction, including anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures (hereinafter referred to as "two counter one guarantees") and "US 337 survey", accounting for 1/3 of the total number of cases in the country, and the amount of direct cases involved was nearly 6 billion US dollars, accounting for 1/4 of the whole country.

Textile industry, electromechanical industry and light industry have the greatest impact. With the expansion of foreign trade, the intensity of international trade friction is also increasing.

Since 2007, the number of cases involving over ten million and hundreds of millions of dollars in our province has been greatly improved.

In 1-8 months of this year, there were 17 cases involving more than 10 million US dollars in our province. Among them, the US anti-dumping case against China's screws and bolts and the European Union's anti-dumping case against China's candle and chemical fiber cloth amounted to 136 million dollars, 97 million 280 thousand US dollars and 328 million US dollars.

From the perspective of the industry, textile, electromechanical and light industry are the three biggest industries that are most affected by international trade friction, and the three are the most important export items.

Since 2007, mechanical and electrical products have become the largest categories of commodities involved. Electromechanical products such as fasteners, steel pipes, glasses, lighters and so on have encountered trade friction.

At the same time, private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises have become the main export entities of Zhejiang and the new growth point of Zhejiang's foreign trade. At the same time, they have also brought severe tests to Zhejiang's foreign trade management order. The massive economy they once proud of has frequently become the direction of International trade friction.

According to the survey, from 2002 to 2007, there were more than 200 export products in the whole province, which encountered foreign "two anti one insurance" and "337 survey", many of which frequently pointed to the massive economy of our province.

Such as the lighters industry in Wenzhou and Ningbo, the polyester industry in Xiaoshan and Shaoxing has been subjected to anti-dumping investigations for several times in its main export markets.

For example, fasteners in Jiaxing, aquatic products in Zhoushan, cans in Huangyan and shoes in Wenzhou have also suffered from international trade frictions from their main export markets to varying degrees.

"Apart from the foreign trade protection, the low technological content of our export products and the lack of core competitiveness are the internal causes of friction."

The Fair Trade Bureau of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation said.

At present, the proportion of high and new technology exports accounts for only 6.5% of the total, while the less than 5 million of the total export volume is 83%.

"Trade friction is a normal phenomenon."

The head of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation said that there will be friction in trade and the number of frictions involved continues to increase. On the one hand, it shows that Zhejiang's openness is getting higher and higher. On the other hand, Zhejiang's related export structure and growth mode need to be improved.

At present, Zhejiang has put forward some countermeasures: explore the early stage management of fair trade, strictly rectify the low price auction and punish related enterprises; explore the establishment of a legal aid mechanism, reduce the incidence of cases, raise the rate of prosecution and win the lawsuit rate, and strengthen training and defense support for enterprises.

What is worth mentioning is that it can not only help governments and enterprises get information on foreign trade barriers earlier, but also ensure the authority of information and improve their efficiency. A batch of early warning and demonstration points for foreign trade emerge as the times require.

It is understood that the province's first batch of 20 foreign trade early warning demonstration sites have been launched.

These 20 "base areas" of the forewarning and demonstration points for foreign trade are well-known industries in Zhejiang. They are led by trade associations, chambers of Commerce and other intermediary organizations.

Such as Wenzhou leather shoes, Wenzhou glasses, Jiaxing fasteners, and leading enterprises in Zhoushan aquatic products have become the demonstration sites. Their main task is to collect information on foreign trade barriers and pmit them to the government and enterprises in a timely manner.

Because the early-warning point is rooted in the industry and the enterprise is closely related, it can also understand the "signs" and "signs" of the other side's possible barriers to trade through the overseas business network of the enterprises.

These demonstrations are just the beginning. It is reported that by 2012, Zhejiang will form an early warning network covering the key industries, sensitive products and lump economy of the whole province, so as to better prevent international trade frictions.

At the same time, in the key source countries, the competent authorities will learn from the advanced international experience to further explore the construction of foreign information stations, and strive to fight less passive "encounter".