Analysis of China's LED lighting products export to the United States: the rapid growth of indoor lighting products

Introduction: the United States is the main export market of China's LED lighting products, LED lighting products in the United States, the export value in the first row since 2013 China's exports to the U.S. market, sustained high growth, large volume, fast growth, rich product demand. From the export to the United States, the type of product, the structure of the category changes little, but the growth rate of indoor lighting is much higher than outdoor lighting. According to customs data collation, nes lighting accounted for about 45%, in addition to unspecified category information, exports to the United States before several kinds of product categories is the bulb lamp, lamp, lamp, garden lamp, decorative lamp, lamp, lamp, lamp, mainly for indoor lighting products.

Several major products are growing faster, accounting for rising. The bulb is one of the largest export products. China's exports to the United States bulb light from $15 million in 2011 to $42 million in 2012, $119 million in 2013, $218 million in 2014, accounting for the overall proportion of 15.2%. Consecutive years of rapid growth, of which the first three years of growth of nearly 200%.

In the first quarter of 2015, the export price of the bulb was $46 million 710 thousand, an increase of -3%, a slight decline. The second is the lamp, accounted for 18%, again is the lamp, accounting for 15%, the growth in the first quarter of 2015 were 93% and 14%.

In addition, the growth rate of the most significant is the lamp grille lamp, lamp, and plane lamp buried lights, grille lamp exports grew 1105% compared to the first quarter of 2014, but the market accounted for only 0.4% small, the overall growth rate of plane lamp in 2014 was 408%, the first quarter of 2015 the continuation of the growth momentum in 2014, an increase of 310% in 2014, the market share reached 3.4%, an increase of 2.6 percentage points. Downlight and underground light growth rates were 372% and 179%.

With the LED lighting penetration continues to accelerate, the global LED lighting market continues to expand, and in 2014 a number of countries a "cut Bering" into the essence of the implementation phase, 2015 to bulb, indoor lighting LED lighting lamp, lamp, lamp products as the representative of the plane will continue its rapid growth.

Table 1 export structure of us LED lighting products in China