Tyre protection caused the people's anger. But behind anger, we should think calmly.
In fact, just last year, in Brazil's anti-dumping investigation against Chinese tires, Chinese companies lost their lawsuits, and 100% tariffs were imposed on the products produced, which led to the collective withdrawal of Chinese companies from the Brazilian market. This is a lesson from our previous experience.
Yan Lixing, executive vice president of the National Association of Commercial Vehicle Parts Production and Marketing, believes that the tire industry is one of the industries with the highest frequency and the highest frequency of anti-dumping in international trade. Since entering the WTO, Egypt, Mexico, India and the United States have initiated anti-dumping investigations on tires exported by China. The United States decided to impose special tariffs, and China’s tire export volume will undoubtedly face a sharp decline. What's more serious is that the U.S. survey on special safeguards may cause other WTO members to follow suit, curb and limit the export of tires or other products from China.
In fact, anti-dumping cases for tires should arouse our reflection. Why is China's export products always sanctioned so easily? This tire special protection case, the United States an excuse for low-cost dumping, in fact, some Chinese tire export products do exist low prices, low technical content of products, brand value is not high short board, very vulnerable to foreign sanctions. For the Chinese tire industry, improving the technical content, raising industry entry barriers, and setting technical standards are all things the industry should do immediately.
The director of the Economic and Technical Committee of the China Rubber Industry Association, Zhao Wenquan, believes that we should also summarize lessons learned, whether there are problems with our tires' prices, quality, and costs, and whether there is any non-standard competition.
He pointed out that in the revitalization plan for the petrochemical industry that was introduced this year, industrial restructuring of rubber and tire products is the key to encourage exports and eliminate backward production capacity.
It is never easy to advance through setbacks. However, setbacks can sometimes be the driving force for progress.
In fact, the domestic tire giants have realized the necessity of optimizing product structure and have accelerated the application and promotion of international advanced technologies. In 2007, South China Tire Co., Ltd. successfully developed tires for "air shortage" and radial tires for 26-inch high-performance cars. Among them, the "run-flat" tires passed ECE certification in Europe in April 2009 and were put into mass production. Supply to the European market, into the European high-end tire market.
There is no doubt that companies are profit-driven, as long as the domestic tire factory can be determined to upgrade technology, access to the market with high-quality products, low prices, the future to enter the domestic market, supporting the joint venture car companies, there is no opportunity.
Of course, if the relevant national departments and industry associations can start to support domestic tire companies as soon as possible to help them adjust the structure of export products so that the tire exports from the quantitative type to the technical type, efficiency type, establish their own brands, improve product quality, then the tire companies will Can get rid of the current predicament faster.
On the second day after the announcement of the special safeguard case, Yao Jian, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce of China, mentioned that although the special security case has a great impact, there is still a large market for high-end tires in China, and the government will actively study policies. In the industrial structure upgrade and other aspects to be correspondingly supported. Including supporting export enterprises to optimize their export structure, relying on technological advancement, upgrading product quality and technical services, and developing and producing high value-added tires as the main target, promoting export tires to medium-to-high-end development, and forming competitive products with independent intellectual property rights, nurturing and expanding. Independent brands, enhance international competitiveness.
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