Conflicts of interest in international plastic machinery market are becoming more and more prominent
Conflicts of interest in international plastic machinery market are becoming more and more prominent
The German machinery and equipment manufacturing federation (VDMA) held a press conference in Tokyo, introducing the urgent expectations of the Japanese market and the prospect of German machinery manufacturing. "In the field of mechanical equipment manufacturing, Japan has a large trade surplus with Germany," said ReinholdFestge, President of VDMA, introducing the status of trade between the two countries. In 2013, Japan exported about 400 billion yen to German machinery, while German exports to Japan were only about 285 billion yen.
The VDMA survey shows that "foreign companies account for more than 50 per cent of the German machinery manufacturing market, while the share of foreign companies in the Japanese market has never exceeded 13 per cent in recent years. German and European technology firms are not happy with this. Although in recent years in Japan and the European Union (EU) on the bilateral free trade agreement negotiations, but Festge President put forward: "the future hope customers will recognise the advantages of German products in Japan, how to correct this state of disequilibrium. We hope that Japan can make more positive efforts in opening up the market.
Festge chairman, said the VDMA hope correct date in the field of machinery manufacture, not the cause of the equilibrium between the two countries is "Japanese and German machinery manufacturing enterprises need to work together to fight between the two countries Shared rival, China". He said: "China is now a very powerful machine manufacturer in the world. Moreover, in terms of technical innovation policies, China has also made clear its future policy in the current five-year plan for machinery manufacturing, which is to increase production to qualitative growth. The VDMA believes this means that China will reduce its dependence on foreign technology for the medium term in order to achieve this goal.
China also intends to further strengthen its competitiveness in the export market. , President said, "to estimate the first target of the Chinese manufacturers are neighbouring markets such as India and ASEAN of south-east Asian nations (ASEAN), the strategy is to expand the market to the United States, Russia, Turkey, with the ultimate goal should be developed European countries the market".
"In the face of this set of challenges in China, the machinery manufacturing industry in Japan and Germany must take it seriously and find the right solutions." Specifically, "Japanese and German machinery makers should explore effective ways to ensure long-term development and economic success, such as the cooperation between the two sides in the third market." In particular, the two countries should work together to counter China's challenge and believe this is an effective strategic choice.
Help from the government is also the important factors for the development of industry, in the face of industry association to market intervention, printing plastic manufacturers association (AIPMA) has been looking for government help, which its members can invest in new technology, but also help create new plastic garden in the country. "The plastics industry is one of the biggest contributors to India's GDP, with annual growth of 12-15 per cent, 50,000 manufacturers and more than 4 million in India," AIPMA President AnandOza said recently.
He said its responsibility is to explain to the government sector demand, policy changes, to promote the growth of can promote the industry one of the goals is to promote the industry and the government in technological innovation and infrastructure of recycled plastics.
AIPMA, based in mumbai, has attracted $3.9 billion in investment and is building more plastic parks across the country. These parks are being built in industrial areas such as DahejPanipat (Haryana), NorthRajasthan, gujarat Sanand, karnataka and Narasapura in karla.
According to AIPMA, per capita plastic consumption in India is expected to increase from 8 kilograms today to 20 kilograms by 2020. The Indian plastics industry also recognizes the importance of waste management and has been calling for a national recycling policy. But as the economy slowed last year, the plastics industry called for higher import tariffs, especially for low-end suppliers in southeast Asia and China. In fact, during the December 2013 exhibition of PlastivisionIndia2013 in mumbai, AIPMA urged the government to impose a20 percent tariff on plastic products imported from ASEAN member states and China.
The Indian resin industry has successfully pushed the government to raise import tariffs from 5 per cent to 7.5 per cent, but AIPMA disagrees, saying it would raise costs for manufacturers of injection moulded products in India.
ArvindMehta, President of AIPMA, said the fta with asean would put Indian companies at a disadvantage because of tax exemptions. He added that the association was not opposed to imports in principle, but called for a level playing field. But the government's slow response to the requirement of AIPMA, and very cautious, chemical and petrochemical product department said asean trade agreement for India on the import and export is "balanced", to expand the volume of trade.
Despite the government officials defended trade agreements, but India's plastic machinery manufacturers association chairman MahendraPatel is convinced that the government will remain on the injection molding machine made in China in 2009 the tariffs, including some tariffs as high as 223%.
Some Indian companies have benefited from high tariffs, such as India's oil company, which in its annual report singled out a 7.5% increase in raw material tariffs to help boost its profits
