U.S. preliminary cuts of Chinese wind power products hurt their related industries

The reporter learned from the China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products on the 13th that the US International Trade Commission ruled on the 10th that the application of wind towers imported from China had caused substantial damage to the US related industries. This ruling means that the U.S. Department of Commerce will continue to launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy "double reverse" investigations on Chinese wind power products exported to the United States.

According to the U.S. trade remedy procedure, after the U.S. International Trade Commission made a positive preliminary decision, the U.S. Department of Commerce will continue to carry out "double anti-" investigations until the initial trials in March and June of this year are applied to China. The tower levies anti-subsidy and anti-dumping duties.

On December 29th, 2011, the US International Trade Commission accepted the application of WindTower Trade Committee (Wind Tower Trade Union) to launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy merger investigation on application-level wind turbine products from China and Vietnam.

The relevant person in charge of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products said on the 13th that it would deeply regret this result and believed that the United States does not recognize that its industry is not competitive enough, but wants to deduct “anti-dumping” and “dumping” from relevant industries in China. Anti-subsidy hats achieve the purpose of protecting their own industries. This is typical of trade protectionism. Such "protection" is not only detrimental to the cooperation between China and the United States in the field of new energy, but it is also not conducive to reducing the cost of power generation for large wind power operators in the United States, and is not conducive to the popularization and promotion of new energy in the United States.

The Electromechanical Chamber of Commerce emphasized that the fundamental reason for the growth of China’s wind power product exports is the competitive advantage of the market, which is the inevitable result of the rapid development of China’s wind power industry, the high management level of Chinese wind power equipment companies, and advanced production technologies and production scale advantages. Non-low-cost dumping or government subsidies.

The Electromechanical Chamber of Commerce stated that it will continue to organize domestic export-related enterprises to actively respond to the “double counter” investigations and strongly urges relevant US government agencies to handle investigations in accordance with the principles of fairness, impartiality, transparency, and marketization, so as to avoid any adverse effect on Sino-U.S. The move of energy cooperation between the two countries.

Cai Weici, vice president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, said at the analysis conference on the economic operation situation of the machinery industry in 2011 held on the 13th that the U.S. conducted a “double counter” investigation on China’s low-end wind power products and they implemented double standards. On the one hand, it restricts the export of high-end products in the country. On the other hand, when China's exports are competitive, trade protection is again implemented. He said that he is studying ways to deal with foreign trade protection.