US Department Of Commerce: China'S Economic Pformation Creates Business Opportunities For US Exports To China

In early October, Stefan Selig, Vice Minister of Commerce, said that the pformation of China's economy to domestic demand will create many business opportunities for us enterprises to export to China. The US government is optimistic about the future of Sino US trade.

Selig said in the "discovery of global market: Greater China region business forum" on the same day, although China's economic growth has slowed down, China's economy will continue to grow, and will rely less on infrastructure investment and export growth, but more driven by consumption growth, which will push us China trade relations to a broader and deeper direction.

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Deputy Assistant Secretary Craig Alan also said that China is pushing for expansion.

The reform may provide strong support for bilateral trade relations between the US and China, which is what American companies look forward to.

"Over the past 30 years, the United States has been treating China.

"The growth is unprecedented," Selig recalled. Since 2007, China has become the third largest commodity export market in the United States, second only to Mexico and Canada.

According to us statistics, in 2013, US exports to China reached a record $122 billion, compared with less than US $3 billion in 1985.

Selig said that the change of China's economy has brought about a substantial increase in per capita income and purchasing power.

"These have promoted the expansion of the fastest and largest middle class in our minds, and promoted the rapid growth of US exports to Chinese goods."

Selig said that in the medium to long term, the trend of US exports to China is rising.

He believes that Promoting Sino US trade relations should be based on the long term and not be confined to the present.

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In order to reduce the competitive pressure of domestic shoe manufacturers from low cost imported shoes abroad, American footwear importers paid a total tariff of $2 billion 500 million to the US government last year.

But the fact is that the amount of employment created by the American shoe industry is only a drop in the bucket.

So the American shoe distributors and Retailers Association urged Congress to pass legislation and free trade terms to cut tens of millions of dollars in import tariffs in the next few years.

"These are tools that can be used to cut tariffs."

FDRA chairman Matt priest said this week at the association's annual shoe distribution and Tariff Conference held in Long Beach, California.

Last year, the United States imported 2 billion 300 million pairs of shoes, with an average of 7.3 pairs of shoes consumed by Americans per year, priest said.

Except for a few high-end professional shoes, domestic retail shoes basically come from imports.

Historically, import tariffs were designed to regulate competition between industries and other low price import tariff industries.

However, the import tariff of shoes is much higher than that of other imported products, and even exceeds the tax burden of domestic products.

For example, there is no need to pay tariffs on mobile phone imports.

The import duty of tobacco is 2.4%, and that of automobile is 2.5%.

The import tariffs of shoes vary from shoes to shoes, but the average is about 10.1%, priest explains.

Although the market share of Chinese shoes in the United States is declining every year, it still accounted for 81% last year.

Vietnam ranked second, accounting for 10% of total imports of shoes in the United States.

Indonesia has a 4% share. Other countries, including Mexico, Italy, India, Brazil, Dominica, Thailand and Kampuchea, account for no more than 1%.

Although the United States has signed trade freedom agreements with many other countries, basically these countries are not the major producers of shoes.

"The TPP agreement may change."

Priest mentioned that the total tariff on footwear products collected by the US government from the negotiating countries of the TPP agreement last year amounted to US $364 million, of which about 362 million US dollars were imported from Vietnam.

The TPP negotiations are expected to end in early 2015 and be implemented in 2017.

The terms of the shoe products will be reduced by about $617 million.

In addition, the renewal of the GSP and the adoption of a number of tariff bill legislation will reduce the tariff collection of footwear products.

Economic studies show that import prices are directly related to the number of shoes purchased.

When prices rise, consumers buy less shoes; but once prices fall, sales increase significantly.