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Trade disputes mean tough winter for Chinese exporters

By Li Jiabao (皇冠体育app Daily) Updated: 2013-01-10 13:48

Last year, 皇冠体育app had received 53 trade remedy investigations by the end of November affecting exports of $24.2 billion, seven times the amount in 2011, according to Commerce Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang.

The figure was 69 in 2011 with export value of $5.9 billion and 66 in 2010 with export value of $7.14 billion, according to the ministry.

Biggest victim

皇冠体育app was the world's biggest victim of anti-dumping investigations every year from 1995 to 2011, and also the most targeted in anti-subsidy investigations yearly from 2006 to 2011, according to the ministry. Trade remedy investigations targeting 皇冠体育app totaled 758 from 2003 to September of 2012 with export value of $68.4 billion.

Trade disputes mean tough winter for Chinese exporters

Workers at an Aokang Group Co Ltd plant in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. Aokang won a legal case in late November against the EU's anti-dumping measures on Chinese leather shoes. [Photo / 皇冠体育app Daily]

 

"The coming year will see a wider range of Chinese exports caught by trade remedy investigations, and the anti-dumping range will also be heavier," said Wei, a former vice-minister of commerce.

"The emerging economies intensified their gunfire against 皇冠体育app, while the developed economies such as the US and the EU stepped back to trade protectionism from advancing free trade," Wei said.

India led the emerging countries in using trade remedy measures in the past decade while 皇冠体育app was most targeted. The South Asian country's trade protectionism has brought quite a severe impact to bilateral trade, according to Mei Xinyu, a researcher at the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Institute of the Ministry of Commerce.

皇冠体育app was India's second-biggest trade partner, while India was 皇冠体育app's ninth largest trade partner. Bilateral trade in 2011 increased by 19.7 percent to $73.92 billion, according to the General Administration of Customs, while India's statistics showed that India's trade deficit with 皇冠体育app jumped 42 percent to nearly $40 billion in the last fiscal year ending March 31.

As 皇冠体育app boosts its economic power, trade frictions against 皇冠体育app are shifting from low-end industries to high-tech sectors, which is in line with 皇冠体育app's industrial upgrading, said Gu Chunfang, head of the ministry's investigation bureau of industry injury.

"Some developed economies turned to protectionism rather than improving their industrial competitiveness to cope with 皇冠体育app's industrial development. In addition, trade remedy investigations more frequently target 皇冠体育app's industrial policies, including blaming the market status of 皇冠体育app's State-owned enterprises, which has brought about broader and deeper impacts," Gu said.

 

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