LED Export Situation Is Becoming More Complicated

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Overall, in 2014 China's foreign trade situation, both factors of production costs continue to rise, as well as the weakening of the traditional comparative advantage "WTO dividend" tends to subside and other more serious side, there are also constantly improve the level of trade facilitation, cross-border e-commerce the rapid development of new trade patterns and the state has adopted a series of policies and measures to promote the development of foreign trade and other positive side.

LED lighting favorable policies continue. In recent years, phase out incandescent lamps, coupled with a huge government subsidies for export of energy-saving lamps, LED lamps based industry companies, the market is a tremendous positive. After 30 years of development, China's LED industry has experienced buying the device, to buy chips, buy a wafer after the road has been achieved production of epitaxial wafers and chips, initially formed a relatively complete industrial chain, has become the world's major purchase LED products ground. With the expanding global LED outreach, China's LED lighting exports will face unprecedented opportunities.

LED lighting market penetration will be increased dramatically. According to global market research firm estimates that in 2014 the output value of LED lighting market $ 35.3 billion, an increase of 47.8% compared with 2013, 2014, LED lighting penetration rate will increase to 32.7%; And, in the past in the LED lighting market, because prices are Higher reason, the civilian market penetration has been low, and as LED lighting technology to improve and change their prices continue to move to the sweet spot. According to foreign UBS Securities noted that in 2014 the global LED lighting demand will surge 60%, with the largest increase household lighting, next year will be greatly increased 9 percent, well above the 37% and 57% of industrial commercial, where the application the most widely used light bulb and lamp penetration rates of 20% and 15%, a huge high-profile LED lighting market prospects civilian space.

Emerging markets LED lighting needs warming. According CPbay comprehensive data show that, due to vigorously promote environmental awareness and government, LED lighting penetration in the rapidly emerging markets such as Russia, India, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Africa and other countries or regions due to the high heat of infrastructure investment for LED lighting products demand showed a clear upward trend, or will become in 2014 the global LED market is another bright spot. In addition, China and ASEAN countries have bilateral trade agreements, exports to these countries to enjoy lower tariffs LED products even zero tariffs; especially the Russian demand for LED lighting is also very large, less its local LED enterprises, enterprise scale much technology is relatively backward, the demand for LED lighting is also larger.

LED TBT become the biggest obstacle. Europe and America as the world's major LED application base, LED standards, has been ahead of other countries and regions, technical and safety standards has been high demand in Europe and America, Japan and other developed countries as trade protection measures frequently used. Them through the development of technical regulations, safety standards and other ways to set up a demanding commodities market access conditions, has become the biggest obstacle to our LED lighting products of foreign exports.

Increase the risk of trade friction and other intellectual property disputes. In recent years, despite significant growth in the number of patent applications LED China mainland, but the position in the global LED pattern of intellectual property has not been fundamentally improved. Instead, the homogenization of competition caused by the LED intellectual property issues are intensified, industry dominance missing a growing problem, also increasing the risk of trade friction. Meanwhile, as China's rapid increase LED lamps exported annually exports between the increasingly intensified price competition in the industry is bound to take on China's LED products anti-dumping, countervailing and other trade sanctions after international markets become saturated, will increase trade friction risk.