The one hand, the external dependence of China's rubber has reached about 80%, rubber import tariff on the other hand has been up to 20%, which bring great pressure to the production and operation of tires and other rubber manufacturers, natural rubber costs accounted for tires more than 40% of the cost of production, a serious impact on China's tire rubber (10.18, -0.34, -3.23%), international competitiveness. To this end, the China Rubber Industry Association (hereinafter referred to as "the Rubber Association) has again submitted to the authorities recommendations called for the abolition of import tariffs on natural rubber.
Tire business benefits in severe decline last year
According to the Rubber Association concerned parties, since 2012, natural rubber prices gradually rise, the futures price 23000-24000 yuan from the beginning of the year rose to nearly 30,000 yuan, the spot price close to 30,000 yuan from 26000-27000 yuan. Natural rubber costs accounted for more than 40% of the cost of tire production, the price is so significant fluctuations in the tire companies can not control the cost of production, the production run has great difficulty.
Rubber Association statistics show that in 2011 45 tire companies in the substantial increase in sales at the same time, the benefits are in severe decline, the industry profit decreased by 16.2% over the previous year, 11 loss-making enterprises, the amount of the loss is an increase of 92.25% over the previous year, a loss of face up to 25.6%, an increase of 6.98 percentage points over the previous year.
High natural rubber import tariff is one of the reasons that caused the loss. In 2011, China's imports of natural rubber, 210 tons, imports amount to $ 9,380,895,000, the average import price of $ 4,467, the ad valorem tax levied tariffs of up to 5,610 yuan, the enterprise can not afford to digest, then large losses.
At the same time, the self-sufficiency rate of China's natural rubber is also showing a decreasing trend year by year, for the first time fell below the internationally recognized security line of self-sufficiency rate of 30% in 2005, fell to 25% in 2007, fell to 22% in 2009, fell in 2010 to 20%.
Proposes to extend the country's natural rubber reserve
Chinese policy of high tariffs on imported natural rubber, the 10 ASEAN countries implemented unreasonably high tariffs on Chinese tire exports.
Reflect backbone tire manufacturers in China, the tire between the 10 ASEAN countries import tariffs are 5%, while the high tariffs on imported Chinese tires, one important reason is that China's imports of natural rubber tariff of 20%. Natural rubber import tariff policy so that our tire business the two suffering can not enjoy equal treatment in international trade.
In the opinion of the Rubber Association, natural rubber high tariff policy to the development of the domestic tire industry has brought a lot of drawbacks. First, the tire companies be forced to carry out processing trade, resulting in a high degree of dependence on the international market; tire is difficult for enterprises based on changes in market conditions in a timely manner to changes in marketing mode, making it difficult to achieve maximum benefit; encourages the smuggling of natural rubber violations. Therefore, the high tariffs of natural rubber to reduce tire competitiveness of enterprises is not conducive to the healthy development of the industry and technological progress, structural adjustment and strategic transformation.
To this end, the Rubber Association proposes to abolish the natural rubber import tariff that which is conducive to reducing the cost of imported natural rubber to improve the competitiveness of enterprises of China's tire and domestic market share, but also conducive to completely change the tire industry in the name of processing trade imports of natural rubber, tire re-export production and management, reduce or resolve international trade disputes, one pair beneficial for all parties.
At the same time, the Rubber Association also proposes to extend the national natural rubber reserves to encourage domestic enterprises to go. For the latter, that the State should be given more preferential policies to encourage going out, but also to allow resources to flow back to in overseas rubber sold back to the domestic resources, should be given duty-free import VAT relief or front-end back way, go out domestic enterprises and foreign enterprises to ensure equal market treatment to ease the serious shortage situation of China's natural rubber resources.