"In the first quarter of 2017, China's ceramic brick exports totaled 914 million U.S. dollars, down 27.99% year-on-year." "Foshan Entry-Exit inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Inspection and Quarantine comprehensive Technical Center senior engineer Liu Yamin recently in the" Building Sanitary ceramics quality promotion and Saudi Arabia new standard training Meeting "on the release of China's first-quarter ceramic tile Export-related data.
Among the many export-oriented countries (regions), China's top ten exports of ceramic tiles were the United States, the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Australia and Thailand.
Although the first quarter of China's ceramic tile exports to the United States, the Philippines and Vietnam have shown varying degrees of decline, but these countries are still the Chinese ceramic tile important export market, the future is also worthy of attention. The demand for ceramic tiles is strong because the U.S. labor market is running strongly, the Philippines will launch 1313 infrastructure projects in the next three years, and Hanoi's three-year industrial-construction growth target is 10%-10.5%.
In addition, Hong Kong's share of the region has increased rapidly, by 92.84% per cent year-on-year. Liu Yamin introduced that this is mainly the use of Hong Kong's international trade advantages and port facilitation, do re-export trade. China's ceramic bricks exported to the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the most obvious decline, respectively, slipped 38.96%, 37.12% and 25.97%.
Export of ceramic tiles in provinces of China in the first quarter of 2017
Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong and Jiangxi are still important export provinces of Chinese ceramic tiles. In the first quarter of 2017, the export of ceramic tiles in Guangdong province was 679,662,348 US dollars, which accounted for 74.34% of China's ceramic bricks, and 9.25% of the total exports of Fujian province, which accounted for 93,387,948 US dollars, the total export of Chinese ceramic tiles 10.21%, and the year-on-year decline of 5.31%.
For the first quarter of China's ceramic tile export-related situation, Liu Yamin suggested that Chinese ceramic brick export enterprises should pay attention to regulatory requirements, to prepare for export trade, including mandatory, voluntary and store or customer requirements, etc. At the same time, we should increase the application of research, mining product value-added.
It is noteworthy that, since January 1, 2017, the 2017 edition of the Harmonized System of Customs has merged headings 69.07 and 69.08, deleting heading 69.08. The data in the first quarter of 2017 were only 6907 of the export volume, but the implementation was different in the regions. Therefore, Liu Yamin pointed out that the data of this statistic may not reflect real export data.