外文翻译--鞋类和玩具：反倾销的受害者

1、外文翻译-鞋类和玩具：反倾销的受害者 本科毕业论文外文翻译外文题目 Shoes and Toys Victims of Anti-Dumping 出 处 CHINAS FOREIGN TRADE 2009 12 30-31 作 者 Guo Liqin 原文Shoes and Toys Victims of Anti-Dumpling Guo LiqinThe anti-dumping duties imposed on China have long been a subject of intense dispute According to statistics released by th

2、e WTO China is the country most frequently targeted by other countries for anti-dumping investigation against its exportsAnalyzed by Lehman LeeXu the third largest corporate commercial law firm in China foreign anti-dumping measures against Chinese goods has the following characteristics The variety

3、 of Chinese goods brought under anti-dumping measures is increasing Since the first anti-dumping case against Chinese exports most Chinese goods under anti-dumping investigations go to labor-intensive products or easily processed products involving textile products clothing light industry products h

4、ome electric appliances hardware chemical products mineral products medicine and agricultural productsMany countries have filed anti-dumping lawsuits against China such as Germany France Italy Japan Mexico Argentina Venezuela South Africa Nigeria South Africa Nigeria India South Korea New Zealand an

5、d Turkey Some countries impose duties at a very high rate on Chinese exports In 1993 Mexico launched large-scale anti-dumping investigations against Chinese exports imposing temporary anti-dumping duties 315 percent on toys and 1105 on footwear the highest rate ever setMore and more countries are al

6、so beginning to bring re-exports under the scope of anti-dumping investigations This means that exports originally made in China and directly or indirectly exported through Hong Kong or other regions to the target country are also becoming their anti-dumping investigation targets as more countries a

7、re adopting the rule of the origin of products as being the target of anti-dumping suitsToys pressure also from developing countriesIndias Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry said on June 14 a survey of 110 small-and medium-sized manufacturers found that about two-thirds had suffered a s

8、erious erosion of their Indian market share over the past year because of cheaper Chinese products In its statement FICCI said the Chinese imports were between 10 and 70 percent cheaper than comparable Indian products a price differential that it said was huge and difficult to explain Amit Mitra the

9、 FICCIs secretary-general said Indian industries were being hurt by typical Chinese predatory pricing intended to drive rivals out of business so that Chinese companies could capture the marketand then raise prices to more normal levelsIndian manufacturers face serious competitive disadvantages in c

10、omparison with China including poor infrastructure and rigid labor laws that perversely discourage companies from growing and instead promote inefficient fragmentation China exported US84 billion to India in the first four months this year 13 percent decline compared with the last year according to

11、the data from Chinas Ministry of Commerce Meanwhile statistics from Indias Ministry of Commerce and Industry also show that its import from China still remain stable taking up over one tenth of its total import despite of the context of global economic crisis In January New Delhi announced a six-mon

12、th ban on the import of Chinese toys citing concerns about their safety after Indian toymakers complained that such playthings had grabbed the lions share of the countrys US25bn toy market However the ban was lifted after just two months after Beijing threatened to take the issue to the WTOIndias sm

13、all and medium enterprises have warned that they are suffering because of cheap imports from China They are urging New Delhi to accelerate antidumping investigations and impose tougher safety and quality checks on Chinese products The appeal for greater government protection came amid rising tension

14、s between New Delhi and Beijing over trade after a high-profile dispute over an Indian ban on Chinese made toysNot only India increased protectionism in the US and the EU where most of Guangdongs toys have been exported Russia Mexico Brazil and Argentina have for the time being introduced anti-dumpi

15、ng measures against toy imports from China citing various excuses according to Li Zhuoming deputy chairman of the Guangdong Toy Association Actually starting from 2006 Chinese toy manufactures had felt the pinch from diverse-edged pressures We have worries every year We worried about the short suppl

16、y of workers last year and now we are concerned about the foreign market shrinking due to trade protectionism in many western countries Lin Ruorong owner of a toy factory in the city of Zhongshan said His factory manufactures stuffed toys for export to Europe and the United States The USs toy import

17、s from China have been decreasing over the past couple of years and the European Union has raised its market threshold for Chinas toy products he said That means my business is hardly able to survive What was worse Li said was that the price rise of raw materials and the rise in workers wage would f

18、urther narrow profit There is consensus that tapping into domestic market and resort to innovation of the whole industry is the only way out To Chinas delight many toy manufacturers in Shantou Guangdong province have successfully upgraded their products and even thrive during the international finan

19、cial crisisFootwear price advantage encounters challengesChinese leather shoes are for long time the victim of EU anti-dumping sanctions and the relevant barriers take place frequently On October 7 2006 the European Union on Chinese shoes anti-dumping sanctions on Chinese leather shoes originating i

20、n the introduction of the product for a period of 2 years of 165 percent antidumping duties despite MOFCOM spokesman Chong Quan said that there was no dumping in export of Chinese shoes and the exported shoes did not cause essential damage to EU industry It is remarkably discrimination to refuse rec

21、ognizing the economic status and legal basis of all Chinese enterprises who responded to the anti-dumping case and decided to implement all others rate to all involved enterprises At the same time Pakistan Peru Venezuela Canada and other countries also have been on Chinas footwear has taken anti-dum

22、ping measuresRight now Chinese shoes manufacturers are facing severe challenges to its traditional price advantage in the international market The first is the rising costs squeezing corporate profits During the year 2008 with the rising international oil prices plastic raw materials prices also ros

23、e sharply According to the plastic monthly report from May 26 to May 30 week period in 2008 the prices of plastic raw materials market as a whole rose up to RMB 300-800 ton In addition the continued appreciation of the yuan the export tax rebate rate cut as well as the new Labor Contract Law and oth

24、er factors have started to make shoes enterprises gradually lost their cost advantage increasing the pressure on survival The second is the lack of independent brands and RD wholesale capacity weak anti-risk capability At present the domestic shoe-making enterprises or most of the materials belongs

25、to or has been on behalf of Taiwan Hong Kong and South Korea Europe and the United States and so did export orders from overseas customers not their own brands and marketing because shoe-making technology is not easy to copy Once the costs of many customer orders had shifted to lower-cost Southeast

26、Asia companies go down the tubes According to the Asia Footwear Association by the end of 2007 statistics of more than 5000 shoe-making enterprises in Guangdong more than 1000 were in the closure in 2007 when the industry didnt fully feel the pinch of financial crisisTake Argentina as an example it

27、initiated anti-dumping investigation on footwear originating in or imported China On February 26 2009 the Argentine Ministry of Economy issued Resolution No 422009 decision on the originating in or imported footwear from China initiated anti-dumping cases If the survey confirmed the existence of dum

28、ping practices indeed will imports from China of such products be imposed punitive anti-dumping duties Argentina national newspaper reported that the investigation carried out from the beginning of last year Argentina Footwear Association submitted their applications to the Government accusing dumpi

29、ng phenomenon is prevailing in footwear products imported from China the footwear industry in Argentina resulted in serious injury it is necessary for the Government to launch an anti-dumping investigations Cheap Chinese shoes give a competitive advantage it is also regarded as the harm by these cou

30、ntries EU anti-dumping at the renewal period Russia and Canada Argentina also took the opportunity to initiate anti-dumping investigations Because of cheap Chinese footwear industry has become the targetActive response to anti-dumping only way outSun Ya Deputy General Manager of Cixi Jiangnan Chemic

31、al Fiber Co Ltd In Ningbo City South Chinas Jiangsu province said In front of dumping investigations we must but be more familiar with international rules Giving up one market means to give up moreIn the anti-dumping cases against Chinese polyester staple in 2007 only 34 of the enterprises involved

32、entered an appearance This means other the other enterprises have lost their USA market Entry or lose the market Only if an enterprise has an awareness to protect its legal rights can it keep its market This has become a common view of many enterprises of Ningbo One in charge in Sanqin Chemical Fibe

33、r Company said that they have spent RMB 100000 in the lawsuit However they have avoided a loss of RMB 2 million every year This input-output ratio of 120 is really a profiting trade Many enterprises that took a wait-and-see attitude now are taking active measures to improve their financial managemen

34、t system to prepare for possible anti-dumping investigations译文 鞋和玩具反受害 长期以来反倾销税征收中国一直是争议激烈的话题根据组织公布的统计数据中国其他国家针对性的反倾销调查最的第三大企业商业律师事务所分析对中国产品国外反倾销措施具有以下特点反倾销措施中国商品品种越来越多自从第一次对中国出口反倾销的大多数中国商品反倾销调查劳动密集型产品或容易加工产品纺织品服装轻工产品家用电器五金化工产品矿产品医药和农产品许多国家都对中国提起反倾销诉讼如德国法国意大利日本墨西哥阿根廷委内瑞拉南非尼日利亚南非尼日利亚印度韩国新西兰和土耳其有些国家对中

35、国出口非常高1993年墨西哥对中国出口发起大规模反倾销调查征收315临时反倾销鞋类1105高税率没有越来越多的国家也开始反倾销调查转口这意味着原产于中国直接或间接出口到香港或其他地区国家的也国家反倾销调查对象原产地规则倾销诉讼玩具压力也来自发展中国家印度的工商联合会表示6月14日110个小型和中型制造商的调查显示过去一年便宜的中国产品约有三分之二印度市场份额已经遭受了的严重侵蚀在声明中印度工商联合会百分之1070的中国进口比同类印度产品更便宜价格差异巨大而难以解释印度工商联合会的秘书长说印度工业正在典型的中国掠夺性定价伤害旨在竞争对手退出中国占领市场再提高价格正常水平印度制造商与中国面临着比较

36、严重的竞争劣势包括落后基础设施和的劳动法倒行逆施阻促进据来自中国商务部的数据今年前四个月中国出口到印度84亿美元比去年同期下降百分之与此同时来自印度的商业和工业部的统计还显示尽管全球经济危机的背景下中国的进口仍保持稳定超过进口总额的十分之一今年一月新德里宣布对中国进口玩具为期六个月的禁令理由是印度玩具制造商抱怨玩具已25亿美元的玩具市场份额担心他们的安全然而这项禁令被解除仅仅两个月后向组织北京威胁印度的中小型企业警告说他们来自中国的廉价进口商品痛苦他们敦促新德里加快反倾销调查并且对中国产品严格的安全和质量检查印度对中国制造的玩具高调争端呼吁政府保护新德里和北京之间关系紧张据广东省玩具协会副会长李卓明不仅印度广东省的玩具大多远销欧盟增了贸易保护主义俄罗斯墨西哥巴西和阿根廷各种借口已暂时禁止从中国引入进口玩具的反倾销措施事实上从2006年开始中国玩具制造商已经感受到了来自