subject: "carbon Tariff" Trade In Europe And America Will Become The New Battlefield Game [print this page] Statistical data indicates that last year, petrochemical, steel, textiles of various trade remedy investigations of the hardest hit. China launched a total of 116 last year from foreign trade remedy cases, of which iron and steel, and petrochemical products were 22 cases, shared top spot, in addition to the investigation against Chinese textile products up to 19 cases.
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies Research Center, International Economic and Trade Harrier Xiao Fei, deputy director of the view that China's textiles and in the low-end steel products is highly competitive, so which attract more trade protection cases. As for the petrochemical products, the Ministry of Commerce Industry Injury Investigation Bureau YANG Yi said that China Petrochemical [9.96-0.70%] Industry concentration is low, easily lead to vicious competition and industry price war, and lead to anti-dumping investigations.
U.S. trade friction heating
U.S., China and the EU anti-dumping anti-subsidy of the recent war, involving a huge impact on Chinese exports even more serious business.
I obtained from the Guangzhou Customs statistics show that the rising trade friction has been significantly slowed down the recovery of U.S. foreign trade of Guangdong on the process. The first quarter of this year, Guangdong's gross import and export trade with the U.S. increased 15.2% over the same period last year, but recovered to pre-crisis levels, as compared with the first quarter of 2008 decreased by 5.7%. The first quarter of this year, Guangdong's trade with the U.S. over the same period increased significantly lower than the overall export growth in Guangdong 17.5 percentage points, in Guangdong, three major trading partners (U.S., EU, Hong Kong, China) increase in the minimum.
Customs noted that the United States set off the recent wave of trade protection, trade protection, increase the number of cases, the implementation of trade with China expanded the scope of protection of related goods, according to China Trade Remedy Information web statistics, in the first quarter, the U.S. has on China's implementation of the various types of trade remedy cases of 58 cases, only 8 out on April 1-9, involving the products of crawfish tail meat, spring washers, honey, nail and canned warm water shrimp.
Shaw Harrier flying that the U.S. would "Made in China" frequently resort to trade remedy investigations, is that pressure to revalue the yuan. After all, the trade remedy is a "one by one break," forcing the RMB appreciation, you can "at once."
"Carbon tariff" will become the new battlefield game
Some analysts say China has been investigating the case last year, the anti-dumping case by 6, the anti-subsidy cases increased by 2, the "China-related security measures" to increase by 8, the "special protection" increased by 5, the display face of trade protection in China Marxist anti-subsidy and safeguard the development of positive, but the two forms of attack more.
In addition, low-carbon economy associated with the technical barriers to trade are increasing. "It should arouse a high degree of vigilance." Guangdong University of Foreign Studies Research Center, International Economic and Trade Harrier Xiao Fei, deputy director, said that European and American use of low-carbon environmental protection matters, is still confined to technical barriers, ie to improve product access, technical standards, but All signs indicate that the "low carbon" may become the next new trade barriers, especially the "carbon tariff", is likely to be Europe and the United States to developing countries set up a new "magic spell." Shaw is expected to fly the Harrier, a few years, "carbon tariff" and the like because of environmental protection and impose punitive measures, will become a WTO parties in the new battlefield game.
