Mofcom: China may face more serious trade frictions next year

BEIJING, December 21 (Xinhua) The Ministry of Commerce import and Export Fair Trade Bureau secretary Zhou Xiaoyan 21st said that next year China's import and export situation will be more complex and serious, trade relief work or will face greater pressure.　　Zhou Xiaoyan is 21st as the Ministry of Commerce website and netizens to communicate when making the above expression. With the rising of international trade protectionism, China has experienced the highest number and amount of disputes in the past year. As of November, a total of 19 countries and regions to China launched the "two anti-two insurance" Trade relief Survey 103, of which anti-dumping 67, countervailing 13, safeguard measures 16, the special Insurance 7. In addition, China has suffered 337 U.S. investigations in 6.　　The total amount involved is about 12 billion dollars. In addition to the number and amount of trade friction cases are the highest in history, Chinese products encounter trade friction of the chain of highlighting.　　Zhou Xiaoyan said, iron and steel, footwear, toys, aluminum products, tires and other Chinese traditional superior export products frequently have a product in different markets encounter trade relief survey phenomenon, showing the friction of national proliferation and relief measures superimposed momentum.　　In the face of the rising trade protectionism, the Ministry of Commerce, on the one hand, through political negotiation, negotiation, legal defense, industry cooperation and lobbying, such as "multi-pronged", and actively respond to all types of trade friction cases, on the other hand, the legal, objective, impartial and fair use of trade relief measures to safeguard According to Zhou Xiaoyan, the Ministry of Commerce has initiated 8 anti-dumping investigations and 3 countervailing investigations since the beginning of this year, and has also ruled 8 anti-dumping cases and 1 countervailing cases.　　December 10, the Ministry of Commerce from the United States entrance of the "double counter" investigation of electrical steel to make a preliminary ruling, so that China has become a minority can fully use the WTO rules of Anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures three kinds of trade relief measures, one of the WTO members. Zhou Xiaoyan said that the situation of China's foreign trade in the 2010 will be more complex and serious, and trade relief work will face greater pressure. She said the world economic recovery is slow and tortuous, countries to protect the domestic market and competition for international markets will continue to become increasingly fierce, and as more and more developing countries into the economic globalization, participation in the international division of Labor, some of China's industries and developing countries industry homogeneity and competition, also will produce trade friction.