EU Final Ruling Chinese Ceramics Punitive Tariffs of 69.7%(9/20/2011)

The European Union make the final anti-dumping tile ceramic originated in China, and decide to collect as much as 69.7% of punitive tariffs for Chinese exports to the eu's building ceramic collection until 2016. "The association now became emergency response team, has visited in the enterprise, knowing order processing situation." China ceramics industry association foshan office director Lan Weibing received a telephone and discuss with several ceramic enterprises on current China ceramics industry encounter crisis. At the same time, the association also sent men to the European Union in yesterday on the last communication with European Union.

In the industry view, the case was a long time. Last June, the EU made a anti-dumping investigation for tile originated in China, involving more than $ 320 million. In March this year, the results of the preliminary anti-dumping came out, punitive tariffs of up to 73%, once caused the vibration by the industry. According to the Mr.Lan said the EU has 80% of buyers start watching after preliminary results came out, no less than one delay. This is a direct result of from January to July, the Chinese ceramic exports to the EU decreased by 16.5%, while in previous years this time, should be an increase of more than 20%.

Even so, the majority of enterprises have been in a wait state, except for a small number of Chinese ceramics companies were responding to the preliminary ruling. Companies do not actively responding and to the final they will face even greater losses. According to final results, in addition to six enterprises ranging from 26.3% to 36.5% of individual tax rates, more than 100 enterprises involved in the investigation of the weighted average rate of 30.6%, other 69.7% of enterprises were imposed punitive tariffs, valid up to 5 years.

China's exports will face tile hit. According to China Customs statistics show that the EU has become China's third largest exporter of ceramic tiles, ceramic tile exports to China's total exports accounted for 8% to 9.5% of the total export value of 10% to 12%. "The EU is the world's brand distribution center, the EU opened the first, other countries are likely to make anti-dumping investigation against us." in the view of the Ascot Goff Ceramics chairman of Chen Yanbin, the EU is to take the opportunity to suppress China's ceramic industry.

It is understood that since last year, in addition to the European Union, China's ceramic series was dropped anti-dumping lawsuits by South Korea, Argentina and Peru and other countries and regions. Chen Yanbin thinks that after the final results came out, perhaps some time in the future, there will be more countries to China tile proposed anti-dumping. 69.7% punitive tariffs is a fact, how enterprises make a break has become a business imperative. "Daily News" has learned that part of the ceramic enterprises have begun to consider moving their production bases to lower-cost countries, to avoid the EU threshold. Chen Yanbin says his company is working with European distributor, and to move the production bases located in the EU or South Korea early and minimize the impact of anti-dumping.

(Author Mosaic and Tile, China Leiyuan 9/20/2011)

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