Export complex in 2014 LED lighting exports have worries

China's foreign trade situation in 2014 are both factors of production costs continue to rise, the traditional comparative advantage is weakening and the "WTO dividend" tends to recede one more serious, also continuously improve the level of trade facilitation, cross-border e-commerce and other new trade to national development and the rapid introduction of a series of policies and measures to promote the development of foreign trade actively side. Therefore, combined with the status quo of the development of China's LED industry, a comprehensive judgment, China's LED lighting exports in 2014 faced a slight improvement in the trade situation, both favorable and unfavorable factors.

Export situation more complex

In general, China's foreign trade situation in 2014 are both factors of production costs continue to rise, the traditional comparative advantage is weakening and the "WTO dividend" tends to recede one more serious, also continuously improve the level of trade facilitation, cross-border e-commerce and other new trade as well as the rapid development of the country has issued a series of policies to promote the development of foreign trade positive measures.

LED lighting policy continued positive. In recent years, the elimination of incandescent lamps, coupled with a huge amount of government subsidies to the export of energy-saving lamps, LED light industry as the main business, is undoubtedly a great market positive. After 30 years of development, China's LED industry has experienced buy devices, buy chips, buy epitaxial film after the road has achieved self production wafer and chip, initially formed a relatively complete industrial chain, has become the major world countries purchasing LED products. With the continuous expansion of the scope of the global LED, China's LED lighting exports will face unprecedented opportunities.

LED lighting market penetration will be greatly improved. In the past, in the LED lighting market, due to higher prices, the penetration of the civil market has been low, and with the improvement of LED lighting technology and change, the price continues to move toward the sweet point. According to Foreign Securities pointed out that in 2014 the global LED lighting demand will increase 6, of which the largest increase in household lighting, next year will increase 9, far higher than the 37% commercial and industrial use of 57%, of which the most widely used lamp bulb and a penetration rate of 20% and 15% respectively, much of the civilian market prospects attention to the huge space for LED lamps.

Emerging market demand for LED lighting up. According to CPbay data show that, due to vigorously promote the awareness of environmental protection and the government, LED lighting penetration rapidly in emerging markets in Russia, India, Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa, these countries or regions for investment in infrastructure construction of high heat, for LED lighting products demand is obviously rising trend, or will become the 2014 global LED another highlight of the market. In addition, China's bilateral trade agreements with ASEAN countries, exports to these countries LED products can enjoy lower tariffs or even zero tariffs; especially in Russia on LED lighting demand is very large, the local LED companies less, enterprise scale, technology is still relatively backward, but also on the larger LED lighting demand.

LED technical barriers to trade has become the biggest obstacle. Europe and the United States as an important global application base LED, in the LED standard, has been ahead of other countries and regions, technology and high safety standard requirements has been Europe and other developed countries as trade protection measures frequently used. Through the development of technical regulations, safety standards and other means to set the harsh market access conditions, has become China's largest export of LED lighting products.

Intellectual property disputes and other trade friction increased risk. In recent years, although the number of LED patent applications in mainland China has increased significantly, but the status of the global LED intellectual property rights has not been fundamentally improved. On the contrary, the homogenization of competition caused by the LED intellectual property rights is becoming more and more serious, the problem of the lack of leading industry is becoming more and more serious, and the risk of trade friction is also increasing. At the same time, with China's LED lighting exports rapid increase year by year, the same industry between the low export price competition, the international market tends to saturation state is bound to take on China's LED products anti-dumping and anti subsidy trade sanctions, will also increase the risk of trade friction.

Industry immature bring worries

Although China's exports of LED lamps are good, but the industry is not mature enough to come along with some of the problems have gradually highlighted, there are many worries, mainly in the following areas:

Lack of breakthrough in the core competitiveness of enterprises. All along, the LED industry in China is only in terms of product packaging, and in product development and chip manufacturing and other aspects of their own core technology and patents. Most of the international high-end products in the world are produced in China's Taiwan region and Japan, Europe and the United States and other places, and many small and medium enterprises in China can only engage in LED applications, the lowest in the industrial chain of the LED. In addition to a small number of large enterprises, many small and medium-sized enterprises can only produce large amounts of rainbow tube does not require high quality products to enterprises in the Pearl River Delta as an example, even many companies to produce in line with Europe and other developed countries certified products, only exports to Africa, India, Arabia and other countries and regions, made a profit of low-cost advantage to.

Technical barriers to trade issues outstanding. Since the second half of 2012, the United States, Japan, Mexico and the European Union and other countries and regions have increased the threshold of technology import LED lamps, energy saving and environmental protection, put forward covering ecological design, energy efficiency labeling, testing, performance, safety, size, weight, shape and other aspects of the higher, more stringent requirements for entering the country's orientation lights and LED lighting products, can be said that the technical barriers to trade