10 Years Of Entry Into WTO; &Nbsp; Revelation Of Wenzhou Shoe Enterprises To Trade Barriers

10 years after joining the WTO, Zhejiang Province Wenzhou The city is an international country. Trade barrier The "forward position" and "accident prone areas". Faced with the challenge, local enterprises, industry associations and government departments have been surprised and positive, and have tackled one trade barrier after another. Trade Disputes provide reference.

　　 Step forward bravely

Dare to deal with

In November 13, 2001, the Turkey Government Foreign Trade Department issued a bulletin to start the investigation procedure of "safeguard measures" from China's glasses and take supervision measures for the related products during the investigation.

Most of the export enterprises for earth glasses are in Wenzhou. In December 28th of that year, Wenzhou Sunway optical company and other eyewear enterprises submitted a defense letter to the Turkish side, which became China's "first debate on WTO accession" and created a positive response for Chinese enterprises. Anti-dumping The first step is to counter subsidies and safeguard measures (two counter one guarantees).

In July 9, 2005, the European Union launched anti-dumping duties on Chinese leather shoes, of which 130 enterprises were involved in Wenzhou and the amount involved was about 45000000 US dollars. This is the largest trade barrier case involving Wenzhou since China's accession to the WTO. "Shoe capital Wenzhou" is facing a severe test of anti-dumping.

Since then, the European Union has been followed by an anti-dumping investigation, and it has a strong bite to eat Wenzhou leather shoes. At this juncture, 21 enterprises in Wenzhou have risen to suit. They are armed with the principle of free trade and fair trade advocated by WTO, and have made a reasonable defence from the aspects of China's footwear industry, such as highly competitive industries, mostly private enterprises and cooperative nature. However, in October 5, 2006, the EU dropped the anti-dumping stick.

Chinese enterprises are not discouraged. The five Chinese shoe enterprises represented by AOKANG Footwear Group continue to appeal to the EU junior court. After the expiration of the anti-dumping duty for two years, the European Union launched the final review again, extending the anti-dumping measures for another 15 months. In April 2010, the EU's junior court dismissed five Chinese shoe companies' claims. However, AOKANG continued to appeal to the European Union High Court when other shoe companies announced their abandonment of appeal. Under the relentless resistance, Wenzhou shoe enterprises were "bright and beautiful". In March 31, 2011, the EU anti-dumping on Chinese leather shoes finally ended.

From April 2004 to July, due to its patent infringement, the American companies such as Lai Fu ton sued Tongli Technology Group Company in 3 local courts of the United States respectively. In the face of pressure, Tongling group came forward to compete with American enterprises for seven years, and finally won the first case of overseas intellectual property rights protection in China.

After China's accession to the WTO, enterprises began to encounter a lot of trade. barrier Wenzhou, which has a high dependence on foreign trade, has been pushed to the top of the storm. According to the data, from 2001 to November 2011, Wenzhou experienced a total of more than 80 international trade barriers, including anti-dumping, countervailing, American 337 investigation and CR standard, involving more than 1000 enterprises. In the face of difficulties, Wenzhou did not choose to retreat, but to cope with it and strive for a fair international trade environment.

　　 "Ten chopsticks bundles" is good at coping with

In June 27, 2002, the European Union initiated anti-dumping against Wenzhou based lighter products. At that time, Wenzhou enterprises were the first to face such a big wave of international trade friction.

Faced with the new situation, some enterprises are afraid of lawsuits, fear of spending money, fear of trouble and fear of loss. At the other end, time goes on countdown, and after a few days, if no action is required, the whole army will be destroyed. {page_break}

If we do not fight, we will die.

At the time of the crisis, under the leadership of Zhou Dahu, chairman of Wenzhou lighters Association, 17 enterprises jointly raised funds and joined the lawsuit, and tied ten chopsticks into one.

There are organizers who have backbone and have the strength to work together. On the one hand, they fought separately from the two enterprises such as the East lighter factory to the European Union. They defended the reasons for "no dumping defense" and the reasons for applying for market economy status; on the other hand, they actively communicated with the European lighter Importers Association in the name of the association, indicating that the European importers and the Chinese lighters industry were all damaged, and persuaded the European importers to tell the European Union. Through the wits and wits, the Wenzhou lighters industry finally won the victory in dealing with anti-dumping.

This great victory has played three major roles: ensuring that Wenzhou lighters continue to enter the EU market; greatly encouraged the lighter industry and other industries to fight against foreign trade barriers; and opened up a new way for industry associations to "embrace together" to deal with foreign trade barriers.

Since then, the Wenzhou lighters association has organized many enterprises to take the European Union's CR law defense path and achieved remarkable results.

Over the past 10 years, Wenzhou shoe leather, spectacles, zippers, synthetic leather, electrical appliances and other trade associations have played an active role in organizing enterprises to participate in coping with international trade frictions, formulating litigation plans and coordinating the work of responding to complaints.

　　 elaborately organize

Effective guidance

In September 16, 2004, a serious incident of burning Chinese shoes took place in Elche, Spain, which led to heavy losses in Wenzhou's export trade. After the incident, in June 2005, the Wenzhou municipal government and the Municipal Bureau of foreign trade and economic cooperation organized the trade associations and enterprises to form a business delegation of shoe leather to Spain to communicate with the footwear associations of the European Union, Spain and Elche. This trip opened up a precedent for China's shoe enterprises to talk about Spanish shoe enterprises, which caused great repercussions at the local level, and to a certain extent changed the local industry's misunderstanding of China's footwear industry. In December of the same year, the Elche Footwear Association paid a return visit to Wenzhou, and published the Wenzhou Declaration on cooperation and development.

Over the years, the Wenzhou municipal government and the foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau have carefully organized and effectively directed the enterprises in dealing with foreign trade barriers, and have played an intermediary role.

At the same time, since 2007, the two level foreign trade and economic cooperation departments of provinces and municipalities have moved the focus of fair trade in import and export from passive response to active early warning service, and launched the construction of "foreign trade early warning demonstration points" and "trade barriers early warning response mechanism service points".

The establishment of early warning mechanism for trade barriers has timely collected information on foreign trade barriers, so that enterprises can grasp the "barriers" of trade barriers as soon as possible and prevent them from happening. Today, Wenzhou has set up a trade barrier warning and response mechanism service point in 15 trade associations and chambers of commerce with high sensitivity to international trade friction, covering 66% of the total export volume of the city.