Trade Friction Industry Escort: Enterprises Actively Defend And Do A Good Job In Case Early Warning

Since this year, under the background of complex and changeable situation at home and abroad, frequent trade frictions have brought great pressure to China's textile and garment enterprises. It is very important for the stability of foreign trade to safeguard the interests of enterprises and protect the export of textile and clothing.

According to the data, in the first half of this year, China's textile and garment industry encountered nine trade remedy investigations, with the number of cases increasing by 28% over the same period last year, involving the EU, Peru, Turkey, Brazil and Indonesia. The total amount involved was US $1.63 billion, up 27% year on year. The nine trade remedy investigation cases include the anti-dumping investigation of 100% polyester fabric in Peru, two original cases of EU's separate anti-dumping investigation against Zhejiang hailide new materials Co., Ltd., the review investigation of safeguard measures for Turkish nylon or other polyamide yarn, the second anti-dumping sunset review investigation of Brazilian knitted fabric, and the first anti-dumping investigation of Brazil knitwear Seven reexamination cases including the second antidumping sunset review investigation of EU high tenacity polyester yarn.

Since the beginning of this year, China Textile Import and Export Chamber of Commerce has actively organized and responded to trade friction cases with the help of platform advantages and industry status, striving to minimize losses. "At present, the industrial defenses of Brazil's polyester fiber yarn (except sewing thread) anti-dumping case and Peru's clothing safeguard measures case launched in 2019 have not been closed yet. The EU has launched three investigations on the same type of polyester high strength yarn, and the handling of these cases has become the focus of the work of the textile chamber of Commerce in the first half of this year." Wang Yu, vice president of China Textile Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, said.

Organizing enterprises to participate in industry defense

On March 8, 2021, the Brazilian investigating authority filed an anti-dumping investigation case against polyester yarn. On September 29, 2021, it made a preliminary ruling on dumping, injury, causality, public interest and other issues, and decided to continue the investigation without taking temporary measures. In response to this investigation case, the textile chamber of commerce actively organized enterprises to participate in the industry defense. Wang Yu introduced, "In order to strive for a favorable ruling on Chinese enterprises, the textile chamber of Commerce closely followed the relevant domestic and foreign policies of the case, held two litigation response working meetings since the second half of last year, actively broke through the barriers set by the other party to identify the status of China's stakeholders, timely submitted industry non damage defense opinions, defended from the public interest, and tried to promote the use of Pakistan's investigation authorities The production cost and domestic sales data of Chinese enterprises, at the same time, mobilize Brazilian importers and downstream users to lobby. " At present, the final verdict of the case has not been released.

As one of the important sectors of Peru's textile industry, its economic development is one of the important sectors. Since 2020, due to the impact of the epidemic, Peru's textile industry has suffered heavy losses. With the gradual slowdown of the epidemic situation, Peru accelerated the pace of economic recovery, and continued to launch trade relief investigation in order to protect the development of domestic textile and clothing industry. In December 2021, Peru launched the second investigation on Safeguard Measures for textiles and garments imported from China. In this regard, the textile chamber of Commerce timely organized enterprises involved in the case to hold a network litigation response coordination meeting, and finally 11 enterprises decided to participate in the industry non damage defense organized by the textile chamber of Commerce.

"In response to the case, in the first half of this year, the textile chamber of commerce took a series of key measures, including writing preliminary product exclusion suggestions, notarizing and certification of industry representatives, statistical analysis of the import and export situation of the products involved in the case in the past three years, three times of temporary measures and product exclusion, and the filing announcement and technical report to submit defense opinions." Wang Yu said that in addition, the textile chamber of commerce also sent letters to three ministries and commissions in Peru on behalf of the industry, expressing opinions on the handling of cases and interim measures. The economic and Commercial Office of the Chinese Embassy in Peru has cooperated with the domestic investigation authorities and relevant ministries and commissions for many times, opposing taxation. With the joint efforts of all parties, on May 14, this year, the Peruvian government issued an official announcement that the Peruvian multisectoral committee ruled not to take temporary measures to avoid the adverse impact of temporary tax measures on enterprises, and the case will be released in the near future.

Early warning of cases in advance

Since the beginning of this year, the EU has launched three investigations on pet high strength yarn products exported to China: the second sunset review investigation was launched on February 23, the mid-term anti-dumping investigation against the industry was launched on June 30, and the anti-dumping investigation was launched against hailide group alone. The three investigations involved China's exports to the EU of up to 235 million US dollars, which are related to the major interests of enterprises.

To this end, the textile chamber of Commerce has twice organized enterprises to hold litigation response coordination meetings. Wang Yu analyzed that, "In terms of sunset review investigation, the EU generally does not modify the existing tax rate, but decides to cancel or continue the original measures by judging whether dumping and injury will continue or recur, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of enterprises involved in the case and the enthusiasm of enterprises to participate in the response. In response to this situation, the textile chamber of Commerce introduced the EU in December 2017 to the enterprises at the litigation response coordination meeting The new investigation methods adopted after the amendment of anti-dumping laws and regulations, as well as the new changes in the EU market, and a detailed understanding of the recent export situation of enterprises. In terms of anti-dumping mid-term review and anti-dumping investigation against enterprises alone, based on the willingness of enterprises to respond, the textile chamber of commerce did not organize industrial defense. However, because the textile chamber of Commerce released early warning information and held a timely response coordination meeting, and the main enterprises involved submitted the sample volume on time, they also avoided being subject to punitive tariffs. At the same time, the major export enterprises have also decided to participate in dumping defense, actively seize the opportunity and strive for the best result. "

The reporter has learned that although the number of trade remedy investigation cases in the textile and garment industry has been frequent in the first half of this year, compared with 22 cases encountered in 2020, which is the peak number of cases in recent ten years, it is still basically at the normal level. According to the textile chamber of Commerce, the total number of trade remedy investigation cases in this year's textile and garment industry will continue to be the same as that of the same period last year. In the future, the textile chamber of Commerce will, as always, play an active role in the "four body linkage" mechanism, closely track the changes in the import and export situation of the products involved in the case, do a good job in early warning of cases in advance, and timely organize enterprises to participate in the case response coordination work, so as to contribute to the sustainable development of enterprises and the industry.