"Unprecedented" countervailing investigations and intellectual property investigations involving an amount of $8.267 billion were reported by Xinhua news agency, Guangzhou, July 14, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, China's foreign trade industry and enterprises in the first half of this year have been suffering from 15 countries and regions of 60 various "trade relief survey" initiatives, The amount involved amounted to 8.267 billion dollars. "Guangdong to deal with international trade Risk Seminar" held in Guangzhou on 14th, Liu Danyang, deputy director of the Ministry of Commerce's Fair Trade Bureau, said, "This year, China's foreign trade suffered a large number of trade friction, the amount of money involved, are called unprecedented." According to the introduction, this year, our country suffered from the Trade relief Survey covers anti-dumping, countervailing "two counter" and protection measures, special safeguard measures "two insurance" all four forms. Among them, the United States launched the oil well tube case, the amount of money involved amounted to 3.2 billion U.S. dollars, is so far our country suffered the largest involving trade relief investigation. The first feature of Yaowen, the director of the Guangdong Foreign Economic and Trade office, is "countervailing investigations and intellectual property investigations have increased dramatically". He said: "The countervailing survey almost to the average monthly, 337 of the investigation is particularly harmful." "Intellectual property litigation as the core of the 337 survey, has become a number of countries, regions and multinational companies to hinder the development of China's high-tech industry, a" stick. Wang Sanyong, director of the Guangdong Institute of Food Industry, said that the "sucralose lawsuit" that his research institute and production companies had encountered was such a typical case--European and American multinationals, which occupy 95% of the international market, tried to use intellectual property as an excuse to force Chinese companies out of the US market through 337 surveys. However, while winning the lawsuit, the Guangdong Institute of Food Industry paid a total of more than 20 million yuan of litigation costs, far exceeding the expected value, the annual profit significantly reduced, once to the operation of the enterprise caused great difficulties. Liu Danyang introduced that as of the end of June, China's enterprises have encountered 30 countervailing investigations, "almost the anti-dumping investigation will be initiated at the same time the countervailing investigation, the past is the United States, Europe, now Australia, South Africa, India are mentioned, and some even copy other countries ' investigation programs and data, the situation is very grim." According to the World Trade Organization Statistics, 2008 China encountered anti-dumping Investigations 73, countervailing Investigation 10, respectively accounted for the total number of global cases 35% and 71%--China has been the most anti-dumping investigations for 14 consecutive years, for 3 consecutive years as the most experienced countervailing investigation members. Statistics show that the first 6 months of this year, the various types of trade relief surveys have reached 60, the amount of 8.267 billion dollars involved, compared with the annual amount of $6.2 billion involved in the 2008, the increase is obvious. Liu Danyang analysis said that some countries and regions in the trade protection and trade friction in the use of means, there have been many noteworthy new trends, new trends: such as some countries have significantly increased import tariffs, but also to China and other countries to implement the minimum price of some products; some countriesOn the pretext of food safety, climate and emission reduction, it advocates the implementation of new trade technical barriers, including carbon tariffs, and so on. ”
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