Top 10 news of China's rubber industry in 2014
Top 10 news of China's rubber industry in 2014
1. The United States is "double anti-china" for my use and light card tires.
On June 3, the united steelworkers (USW) to the Commerce Department and the United States international trade commission (ITC) apply, requirements for passenger and light truck tyres from China launched anti-dumping and countervailing investigation, and accused of dumping margin of 60.15%, the subsidy rate was 25.73%. On November 24th, the us department of commerce announced the results of the anti-subsidy preliminary review. On December 22nd a new countervailing duty rate was revised. The original tax rate of the two compulsory enterprises was 11.74% and 12.5% respectively, while the remaining enterprises were 12.03%. Shandong yongsheng rubber group co., LTD. Received a punitive tariff of 81.29%. According to Chinese customs statistics, China's export product value of $3.337 billion in the United States, is by far the tire industry suffered amount is one of the largest in the trade remedy measures, involving thousands of domestic enterprises, including 68 production enterprises, will affect China's tire industry and related industry workers close to ten thousand people.
2. Import tariff on natural rubber increased
From January 1, 2015, the provisional tariff rate of China's natural rubber import tariff will be adjusted from 20% or 1200 yuan/ton to 20% or 1,500 yuan/ton, increasing by 300 yuan/ton. The provisional rate of import of imported latex shall be adjusted from 10% or 720 yuan/ton to 10% or 900 yuan/ton, with an increase of 180 yuan/ton. According to the general trade natural rubber import volume of about 350,000 tons in 2013, the annual cost of the rubber enterprises is 105 million yuan. However, due to raise import tariffs, tires and other rubber enterprises or more imported natural rubber processing trade class, higher dependence on exports, as a result, it is easy to cause more trade friction, 2 it is to have been pressing domestic use glue at the bottom of the chain of manufacturing enterprise.
3. Compound rubber national standard reduces raw glue content index
On August 22, the national standardization management committee announced the compound rubber universal technical specification (draft), the rubber content in the compound rubber is not more than 88% (mass fraction), and the China rubber industry association of 2006 by "code for the compound rubber self-discipline of natural rubber content is 95% ~ 95%. It is understood that if the standard is implemented formally, the door of the compound rubber imports will be closed. If the compound rubber is converted into general trade natural rubber import, the annual import of 1.5 million tons of natural rubber is calculated, and the cost of the rubber enterprises is 2.25 billion yuan. At the same time, it will also force rubber companies to import more processing trade natural rubber, which can easily lead to new trade frictions and prevent enterprises from getting rid of the situation at the bottom of the manufacturing chain.
4. The tyre industry admittance condition
On September 17, the ministry of industry and information technology officially launched the tyre industry access conditions, which will be implemented on October 1. The condition emphasizes energy conservation and environmental protection, and puts forward the demands of the tire enterprises on energy consumption, resource consumption and pollutant emission. Encouraging the development of green tyres for energy conservation, environmental protection and safety; We will encourage new and expanded tire projects to adopt proprietary intellectual property technologies; The quality of tire products must meet the relevant standards. At present, the ministry of industry and information technology is working on an announcement management method for the access conditions, and will conduct a public announcement management on the tyre enterprises. The release of this policy will promote the tire industry to eliminate backward production capacity and regulate industry development.
5. Technical specification for green tyre issued by China rubber co.
On February 24, the China rubber industry association issued the green tyre specification, which is to be tested on March 1. This is our country's first green tire industry self-discipline standard. The standard of the green tire is regulated, the performance requirements of green tyre products, the requirements of raw materials are put forward, and the green tyre production technology is recommended. The "specification" lays the foundation for the next step of the tyre labeling system in China. To promote the industrialization of green tire, rubber association, has formed the industrialization promotion committee "green tyre" and "green tire technical support center", and will to tire testing authority certification, refined green tire guidelines such as raw materials, finally realizes the tyre label system.
6. Industry development enter speed shift back down "new normal"
In 2014, the basic situation of the development of rubber industry in China was: production continued to grow, and sales prices continued to decline. The number of exports increased and the value of the export value decreased. The price of rubber raw materials continues to be low, and the cost of factors continues to rise. Profit growth, but growth continued to fall. The bank has entered a "new normal" of speed shifting, which has grown from about 20 per cent in the past to a single digit growth rate of below 5 per cent for the third year in a row. According to the China rubber industry association statistics, in the first three quarters of the present industry complete industrial production rose 3.67%, sales down 0.18% year on year, export delivery value increased by 1.39%, year-on-year exports fell 0.64% year-on-year (value). Some problems that were covered up during the period of high growth were exposed, such as structural overcapacity and serious product homogeneity. At the same time, under the "new normal", the industry will accelerate structural adjustment, innovation-driven and green development.
7. "Research on development strategy of China rubber industrial power" was officially released
On October 16, the China rubber industry association issued the "research on the development strategy of China rubber industrial powerhouse". The book full rich content, detailed data to authority, summarized the rubber industry "11th five-year plan" and the "twelfth five-year" achievements of previous and contemporary rubber industry advanced technology as the goal, reference international advanced technology, put forward the next 5 ~ 10 years China rubber industrial power development strategic objectives and measures. The book detailed quantitative powers strategic goals for the first time, for the first time mapped the rubber industrial power roadmap, is moving towards China rubber industry world powers of the compass, will strongly promote the construction of China rubber industry power.
8. Delayed investment in tire enterprises
In domestic and international market demand growth is slowing, raw materials and product prices continued downward, and the United States to China tire under the pressure of the "double reverse", in the second half of the tire industry management difficulty increased obviously, the "double reverse" product monthly drop in exports to the United States, the industry generally utilization is not high, most enterprises between 70% ~ 70%, inventory pressure, heat made in recent years has been unabated tire project investment slowed for the first time, some project is suspended or terminated. The situation has also affected equipment suppliers, with a large backlog of equipment in the hands of equipment suppliers, and the number of orders for the company in 2015 has been significantly reduced. In addition, due to pressure from the market and inventory, as well as expectations of falling tire prices, the tire marketing industry is entering a difficult year. In this environment, domestic tire enterprises accelerate the pace of going out, and the enterprises of linglong, zhongce, and racing have speeded up the construction progress of southeast Asia projects.
9. Promote informationization and environmental protection and energy conservation
Due to the country to the increasingly stringent environmental requirements, and the basic key elements of domestic costs continue to push up, rubber and related supporting industries companies have stepped up security environmental protection technology equipment development and automation, informationization reform. Such as the comprehensive utilization of waste rubber industry has been actively promoting powder and reclaimed rubber production technology, equipment and raw materials of green upgrades, and determine the elimination "small three" and coal tar, change the way of desulfurization three goals, and at the same time actively promote clean production, green production standards. Rubber additives, such as skeleton material, force the tire industry is also actively promote automation upgrade and the information transformation, such as rubber fertilizer production enterprises have launched the airtight continuous production process modification and control automation, etc.
Rubber prices keep falling
2014 was a difficult year for natural rubber producers and traders. Natural rubber is in a global oversupply, and prices have been depressed, falling back to the level of the international financial crisis in 2008, and the production enterprises and traders are losing money. Synthetic rubber production capacity is also significantly higher than the actual demand, utilization rate of styrene butadiene rubber, butadiene rubber device has dropped to 53% and 68% respectively, isoamyl rubber is down to 15%, difficulty in production and operation situation of synthetic rubber enterprises. In the next two years, China will add another million tons of synthetic rubber.
