Apparel / Textiles & Accessories

According to Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation, China's textile and clothing industry has suffered 15 foreign trade remedy investigations in the past year, with a year-on-year increase of 15.3% in the number of cases, and the amount involved was US $2.414 billion, with a year-on-year increase of 15.6%.

In the new year, as an important part of China's "four-body linkage" in dealing with trade frictions, the China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Textiles will continue to assist enterprises to actively respond to and maintain the interests of the industry under the guidance of the Trade Remedy Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce and with the cooperation of local commercial authorities and enterprises, in-depth analysis of the characteristics of the case, accurate promotion of the response work, optimization of the legal service team, and protection of the high-quality development of textile and clothing foreign trade.

In-depth analysis of case characteristics

According to Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation, last year, the trade remedy investigation cases launched against textile and clothing products showed many characteristics. First of all, the sponsors are concentrated, the key products are prominent, and the amount involved is large. In 2022, more than half of the 15 investigations of textile and clothing products were from Indonesia, India and the European Union. The amount involved in many investigations reached hundreds of millions of dollars, including the amount involved in the review investigation of EU polyester high strength yarn of 230 million dollars, the amount involved in the anti-dumping investigation of Indian viscose yarn of 256 million dollars, and the amount involved in the investigation of three safeguard measures in Indonesia of 1.13 billion dollars.

Secondly, EU cases have a strong chain effect and are difficult to deal with. In 2022, the European Union launched a sunset review investigation, an interim review investigation and a separate anti-dumping investigation against Hailide against China's polyester high strength yarn. "In contrast to the previous investigation results, once a certain type of product is subject to trade remedy investigation by the EU, it will often face a series of investigations many times later, and the review investigation usually does not modify the original tax rate, but decides to cancel or continue the original measures by judging whether dumping and injury will continue or recur. The investigation front of the EU is long and difficult, and the enthusiasm of industry enterprises in defense is weak." Xiao Ling, Deputy Secretary-General of China Textile Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, said.

Thirdly, the scope and duration of the safeguard measures are wide. The first survey of safeguard measures encountered by China's textile and clothing industry in 2002 came from Venezuela. According to Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation, in 2022 alone, Türkiye and Indonesia launched four safeguards investigations on nylon products and curtain, yarn and fabric products, involving 126 tax numbers, with a total amount of about $1.4 billion. "The launch of the review investigation means that the time limit for the enterprises involved to be subject to the restrictive measures will be extended again. At the same time, paying attention to the radiation effect of the safeguard measures will also become the focus of the follow-up work of the Textile Chamber of Commerce," Xiao Ling said.

Actively organize industry defense

"With regard to 15 textile and clothing trade relief cases in 2022 and 11 transfer cases in 2021, the Textile Chamber of Commerce will timely release case warning and case filing information, quickly analyze the product situation of the formal case filing investigation, report the case situation to the Ministry Relief Bureau, and notify the relevant provincial departments and enterprises. For key cases, the Chamber of Commerce will hold a response meeting after soliciting opinions from all parties, and organize enterprises to carry out industry defense. The Chamber of Commerce will timely release the case filing information on the official website and official account The enterprise will be widely informed of the case information and ruling results. " Xiao Ling said.

In response to the case of Peruvian garment safeguard measures, the Textile Chamber of Commerce actively organized enterprises to participate in the industry's defense without damage. On December 24, 2021, Peru launched an investigation into safeguard measures for clothing products, involving a total amount of 734 million US dollars. The Textile Chamber of Commerce promptly organized and held a coordination meeting of online response to the lawsuit, and finally 11 enterprises participated in the industry's defense without damage. "During the period, the Textile Chamber of Commerce held several seminars on the case response work to determine the key products to be defended and analyze the difficulties in the response. It submitted defense opinions on temporary measures and product exclusions, filing announcements and technical reports, and Peru's import and export data for three times, and actively participated in the online hearing and issued objections." Xiao Ling said that the Textile Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to three ministries and commissions of Peru at the end of April 2022, Comment on the interim measures in the case. With our efforts, Peru's multisectoral committee ruled not to take interim measures in mid-May 2022. In August, Peru's investigation authority announced the end of the investigation procedure and submitted the technical report of the case to the multisectoral committee for consideration. However, due to pressure from various parties, until now, the secret recipe has not officially disclosed the technical report and final resolution, and Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report.

In the face of the anti-dumping case of Indian viscose yarn, the Textile Chamber of Commerce made every effort to safeguard the rights and interests of Chinese enterprises. On September 30, 2022, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India launched an anti-dumping investigation on viscose yarn, involving a total of 256 million US dollars. In this regard, the Textile Chamber of Commerce successfully organized four enterprises, Xinxiang Chemical Fiber, Jilin Chemical Fiber, Yibin Hester and Jilin Aika, to participate in the industry defense and submit the defense opinions in time. "In November 2022, India held a technical seminar on product control coding (PCN). The representatives of the Textile Chamber of Commerce attended the meeting to reflect the interest demands, while the Indian importers and downstream representatives expressed objections. After that, the Indian investigation authority accepted our opinion and decided to take the Indian plaintiff copper tube spinning (SSY) The viscose filament produced by the technology was placed in the scope of the investigated products, and did not accept the opinion of the Indian plaintiff that it should not distinguish between dyeing and non-dyeing. In this regard, we have achieved preliminary success in defining the product control code and the scope of the products under investigation. " Xiao Ling said.

Striving to build a team with excellent business skills, unity, pragmatism, efficiency and progress is the guarantee that the Chamber of Commerce can provide accurate legal services for industry enterprises, "This year, we will first improve the working mechanism, enhance the depth and breadth of business research work. We will further improve the accuracy of situation analysis and judgment by expanding communication channels, increasing the learning of advanced work experience. Second, we will carry out targeted work, actively respond to the demands of enterprises, and effectively safeguard the interests of enterprises. Third, we will be brave in practice, innovate the perspective of work, develop new measures of work, enrich response strategies, and further improve legal services Quality effect. " Xiao Ling said that Huacheng's import and export data observation report.