Countermeasures for improving energy efficiency requirements of lighting products in Zhejiang lighting enterprises

At the end of March, the United States issued two bulletin, improve the requirements for U.S. exports of lighting products and technology. In April 18th, the reporter from the Zhejiang province technical trade measures and response center was informed that as to safeguard the interests of our province and China lighting industry, has recently organized the province lighting manufacturing enterprises, lighting appliances association, province and Shanghai inspection and Quarantine Bureau and other relevant experts, to discuss countermeasures. According to the Zhejiang provincial technical trade measures and coping research center expert Pan Yang introduction, the two report released by the United States, improve the integrated lamp lumen output low energy efficiency requirements, once implemented, increase the enterprise at least 20% of the cost of raw materials. At the same time, improve the energy efficiency of lighting products were also unified, at present, in addition to the LED lamp and other lighting products in China are not up to the new level of energy efficiency, once the implementation of the new standards, lighting companies export to the United States will face significant losses. Zhejiang is lighting products production big province, there are more than and 800 production enterprises, exports in 2015 amounted to $9 billion 748 million, of which 16% is exported to the North American market. Once the implementation of the two notification of the United States, the impact on the enterprise is obvious. To this end, the provincial technical trade measures and coping research center since the date of the report found that the United States, has held an emergency preparatory meeting of experts, and in a timely manner to the Chinese WTO/TBT notification Center for consultation held a council. "Received the Council's invitation, we immediately enrolled, and experts together is to propose amendments to the notification of the unreasonable part, try to reduce the impact on the business bulletin." Chen Liang, President of the Hengdian group lighting Limited by Share Ltd is one of the experts involved in the briefing. In his view, state lighting for export, which exports North America products in addition to the LED lamp, electronic energy-saving lamp, outdoor lighting lamps and lanterns also occupy a certain share, if the implementation of new energy efficiency standards, the impact of enterprise development. "And, in a unified energy-efficient lighting products bulletin is also not reasonable, without considering the different luminescence mechanism of different types of lights, through the discussion we propose" different efficiency limit "suggestion is made for different types of lamps for general use." Chen Liang said. Zhejiang electric group Limited by Share Ltd Yankon lab director Li Xiaobing, also at the meeting with other experts on a briefing conducted by the research content. For us, if the United States to implement new energy efficiency, will increase at least 20% of the cost of raw materials, the total cost of the increase is higher. This affects not only our business, but all export to the u.s.." Li Xiaobing said, in fact, the provisions of the energy efficiency standards are higher than the United States, energy star standards and the EU's similar product standards, which does not comply with the WTO/TBT agreement section 2.4. Based on the discussion, the paper puts forward the suggestion that the United States should refer to the energy star LampsV2.0 and reduce the energy efficiency (efficacy) value in table I-1.