Since December 1, some of China's imports of home appliances began to implement the new tariff rate.In the industry view, despite the tariff reduction of imported home appliances, but the impact on China's home appliance industry is minimal.
30 tariffs on imported appliances cut
On November 22, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council released the Notice on Adjusting the Import Tariffs of Certain Consumer Products, requesting that the tariffs on some imported products be reduced by a provisional tax rate from December 1, 2017. This time, the tariffs on the import of consumer goods will be reduced, Covering a total of 187 8-digit tariff lines, the average tax rate has dropped from 17.3% to 7.7%, covering a wide range of consumer products such as foodstuffs, healthcare products, pharmaceuticals, daily chemicals, clothes and hats, household equipment, cultural entertainment and miscellaneous goods.
In this import tariff reduction of goods, household electrical appliances account for a large proportion of a total of 30 tariffs on imported appliances cut, of which, personal care and home care appliances small tax reduction, such as iron, from 35% The MFN tax rate dropped to 10%; drip coffee machine, distillation of infiltration coffee machine, pump coffee machine by 30% MFN rate dropped to 10%; home automatic bread machine, slice toaster import tariff cut 16% to 16%; import duties on electric toothbrushes and electric razors dropped to 10% and a 20% decrease; the smart toilet lid, once sparked by Chinese people, was reduced from a 32% MFN rate to 10%.
In contrast, the major household appliances import tariffs to reduce the smaller, such as cooling capacity ≤ 4 kcal / hour window or wall split air conditioners and cooling capacity ≤ 4 kcal / h heat pump The air conditioner, which dropped from a 15% MFN rate to 10%, only dropped 5%.
Decline in tariffs on imported home appliances, home appliances will not impact on China's business?
'Little influence,' China Household Electrical Appliances Association Consultant Hu Xiaohong, senior consultant is very sure to say.In her view, China's import of large appliances have some needs, but the cost of transportation of large appliances logistics costs are very high, large-scale production in Europe and the United States After the import of home appliances to China has no competitiveness, and most of Japan and South Korea enterprises with production bases in China, even if the product exports to China, its exports are very small Moreover, Sanyo, Toshiba's home appliances business and Sharp has been China's home appliance business Acquisition.
For small appliances, Hu Xiaohong believes that most of the world's small home appliances in China, the new treasure, BDO Runda, Lake, Zhuo Li and so on are world-renowned manufacturers of small appliances, many foreign brands of small appliances are made of these Made by Chinese enterprises From a number of dimensions, the impact of the reduction in import tariffs on China's home appliance industry 'minimal.'
Zhang Yaobin, president of Aowei cloud network also said that does not rule out there are some fans of foreign foreign brands, the tariff reduction will appear after the purchase behavior, but after all this is a niche in the country, it is impossible to set off Big storms.He further pointed out that the imported brands in the appliance sales, service is still a big flaw, it is difficult comparable with the domestic brands, consumers may not be because the tariff reduction and buy.
However, Hu Xiaohong also said that at present, consumers are facing the upgrading of consumption in China. 'We open the door and welcome good products into the Chinese market. We are willing to allow Chinese consumers to buy home appliances abroad at a lower price Product
Chinese home appliances in the global competitiveness continues to improve
China is the largest home appliance manufacturing base in the world. China's home appliance industry has grown continuously in more than 30 years of market competition and continues to grow in strength. Nowadays it has become one of the most representative industries in the world for manufacturing in China.
In the past few years, under the guidance of the State's "supply-side structural reform" and the "Mishina" special action of the consumer goods industry, the household electrical appliance industry in our country is determined to upgrade the product quality and structure, and the competitiveness of the whole industry has been significantly improved.
At the 2017 China Household Electrical Appliances Conference, Jiang Feng, chairman of China Household Electrical Appliances Association, said that under the guidance of the central government's supply-side structural reform in the past five years, China's home appliance industry has undergone a transformation from "big to strong" China's household electrical appliance enterprises have been actively upgrading and insisting on independent innovation and changing their mode of growth. Positive achievements have been achieved. The quality of China's home appliance products has been promoted in an all-round way. The proportion of middle and high-end products has increased. The industrial concentration has been continuously improved and the industrial structure has been effectively adjusted.
Hu Xiaohong also believes that in recent years, the reliability of our household electrical appliances, technology, quality are on the rise, the Chinese household electrical appliance brand image in the world is also continuing to rise, more and more foreign consumers are willing to buy Chinese-made home appliances She also stressed that the growth of China 's home appliance industry in the past few years is the growth of the entire industrial chain. Many accessories manufactured in China have reached the world advanced level in quality and technology and are highly competitive.
'We have enough confidence in the competitiveness of Chinese home appliances in the global market,' Hu said in the global home appliance industry, no country can compare with China, and she even asserted that even imported tariffs are not afraid of low.
Jiang Feng said at the China Household Electrical Appliance Technology Conference in 2017 that China's home appliance industry will further enhance its position in the global home appliance industry. China has become a major home appliance powerhouse with an important influence in the world. China's home appliance industry has become a leader in the innovation and development of the global home appliance industry Important force, China has the confidence and ability to become the leader of global home appliances.