Guangdong LED industry "all the way" barrier 4 suggestions to help the customs clearance

When the "area and one road" strategy brings opportunities to the development of China's industry, some countries along the line of China's LED lighting products (hereinafter referred to as TBT) are also increasing.

According to the WTO/TBT notification and consulting research center of Guangdong Province, in recent years, the international trade in the LED product compulsory standard has been updated frequently and the market access conditions are becoming more and more severe, which makes the number of TBT notifications of the product increase, resulting in the heavy loss of the LED enterprises in China. In 2014, the number of LED products recalled in our country reached 36 million 850 thousand, with a value of $1 billion 342 million.

Guangdong is the most concentrated area of the national LED lighting industry. At present, the scale of LED industry in the province has grown from about 3000 in 2013 to more than 4000, bringing about 3 million people in the related employment and the output value of about 350000000000 yuan. Last year, the export of LED products in the province was 93 billion 875 million yuan, up 35.16% from the same period last year, accounting for 35.53% of the export of LED products in the country, and the number of exports ranked first in the country. The increase of TBT will not only lead to the increase in the export cost of Guangdong's LED products, but also greatly weaken its market competitiveness.

Since 2013, the WTO/TBT Bulletin Research Center in Guangdong has issued 53 notifications for LED products, which include regulations on product safety, energy efficiency and labeling. The notified countries are mainly 17 countries such as Saudi Arabia, the EU, the United States, Kenya, Chile and so on. The center has successfully reviewed the United States LED lamp test program, the EU Directive on directional lights, light emitting diode lights and related equipment ecological design requirements, and a series of reports on the formation of technical barriers to the export of LED industry in China, and maintain the vital interest of the LED lamps and lanterns exporters.

Last year, China exported LED lighting products to 64 countries along the road along the road of 6 billion 744 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 211.84%, accounting for 36.81% of the total export of China's LED lighting products. According to the analysis of the industrial development and export data, the WTO/TBT notification and research center of Guangdong province believes that under the policy investment environment of "one area and one road", the Guangdong LED industry grasped the business opportunities, while opening up the emerging markets, it also encountered 3 prominent characteristics of the international trade barriers, which should be paid great attention.

First, the number of members of the developing countries along the road along the road has been increasing.

For example, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other developing countries, even Kenya, Uganda and other least developed countries in recent years also issued a series of LED product bulletins. Some countries directly copy the most advanced European and American indicators for the access standards of LED products, leading to the increase in the cost of the export of LED products in Guangdong province to the developing countries, which restricts the continuous expansion of the share of the Guangdong LED products in the "one along the way" in the emerging markets.

The two is that LED products are frequently recalled in European and American markets.

Energy efficiency and low carbon requirements have become a new trend in the development of TBT measures in Europe and America. In 2014 only the European Union RAPEX (EU non food fast warning system) and the United States CPSC (American Consumer Safety Commission) recalled 22 batches of LED lighting equipment and LED LCD displays from China's product LED products, which were mainly due to the reasons. It does not conform to the EU's EN60598 energy saving standards, low voltage instructions and US energy efficiency requirements. LED products are frequently recalled, reducing the acceptance of foreign consumers to China's LED products.

Three, the export inspection certification is constantly complicating.

The technical barriers to trade encountered by LED enterprises in the province mainly include product quality safety standards, certification requirements, green environmental requirements, packaging labels or identification requirements. Plus export LED products need to get CE, UL, VDE, FCC, SASO and other institutions certification, the EU and the United States to improve energy efficiency indicators, set up more complex test procedures, to the LED products to increase the testing and certification cost, weakened the price competitiveness of LED products in Guangdong province.

In view of the above three characteristics of LED products encountered by technical barriers, the WTO/TBT notification and research center of Guangdong province puts forward 4 suggestions on how to make Guangdong crack down on trade barriers under the background of "one area and one road".

One is to increase the support for the early warning of the export quality risk of LED products.

To give full play to the fast processing and early warning functions of the existing provincial WTO/TBT early warning information platform, through the construction of the LED professional early warning sub platform, the LED industry chain related foreign regulations, standards and certification dynamics are promptly classified and processed, and point to point push is carried out to form the quality early warning of LED export products with point line and surface integration. Risk analysis is a long-term working mechanism.

The two is to establish an alliance to deal with LED technical trade measures.

The professional TBT should take the lead in the organization, organize technical institutions, scientific research institutions and enterprises, establish the LED technical trade union, follow up, review and study the LED technical trade measures in the key trade markets of the United States, the European Union, Brazil, Chile and South Korea, and make full use of the WTO/TBT agreement. The coordination mechanism, in time to master and eliminate the possible LED technical barriers to trade.

The three is to guide enterprises to actively participate in international standardization.

Strengthen the cultivation, guidance and support for LED enterprises and industry organizations to participate in international standardization work, guide enterprises to pay close attention to the revision of LED standards and technical regulations in developed countries, actively adopt international standards or advanced foreign standards, and take the initiative to participate in international and foreign regulations and standards revision and other related workers. To grasp the initiative of LED international trade.

The four is to encourage enterprises to join together to deal with the trade barriers of LED technology.

Make full use of the bridge role of Guangdong province to deal with the technical barriers to trade barrier, through the joint LED Industry Association, the standard alliance and other organizations to carry out enterprise research, technical barrier special knowledge training, fully understand the demand of export enterprises, guide industry enterprises to break the wall. At the same time, we should actively unite with the government, enterprises, industry organizations and technical institutions to establish a joint working mechanism to win the LED international trade technology war.

It is reported that the WTO/TBT notification and research center of the Guangdong province will give full play to the strength of the WTO/TBT notification points and industry organizations, strengthen the analysis of the quality of export products, guide and serve the LED export enterprises, and establish the data collection, translation, analysis, notification and training of the recall of LED products. One dragon's product quality risk analysis and long term working mechanism of early warning.

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