In the first 11 months of 2010, the export of metal processing machine tools in the customs area maintained growth

According to Shanghai Customs statistics, in the first 11 months of 2010, Shanghai Customs District exported 3.374 million sets of metal processing machines, valued at US$690 million, which was an increase of 29.8% and 31.2%, respectively, compared with the same period of last year.

1. The main features of the export of metal processing machine tools in the customs area in the first 11 months (1) The export volume of general trade accounted for more than 90%, and the export of processing trade grew at a high rate. : The continuous expansion of operations at the Bureau Offices are now narrowing and rebounding month by month. It is necessary to warn that in the first 11 months of 2010, the Shanghai Customs District exported 1.133 million metal processing machine tools by general trade, an increase of 27.5%, accounting for the metal in the same period. 90.2% of total processing machine tool exports. In addition, the export of metal processing machines was 339,000 units by processing trade, a substantial increase of 56.7%.

(2) Private enterprises account for half of the total exports, and foreign-invested enterprises exceed state-owned enterprises as the second largest exporter. In the first 11 months of 2010, private enterprises exported 1.673 million metal processing machines through the Shanghai Customs District, which was an increase of 25.3%, accounting for 48.2% of the total metal processing beds exported by the customs. In the same period, foreign-invested enterprises exported 944.2 million sets of metal processing beds, a substantial increase of 67.8%, accounting for 27.1% of the total export volume of metal processing machine tools in the customs area from 21% in the same period of last year, exceeding state-owned enterprises as exporters of metal processing machine tools in the customs The second main body; In addition, the state-owned enterprises exported 737,000 units, an increase of only 10.7%.

(c) Export destinations are widely distributed, and exports to Brazil and India have doubled. In the first 11 months of 2010, the export market for metal processing machine tools in the Shanghai Customs ranks among the top 10 export markets, covering five continents: Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Oceania. Not only developed countries such as the European Union and the United States, but also ASEAN India and other developing countries. Among them, the EU remained the largest export market in the Shanghai Customs District, with a total of 10.59 million units exported, an increase of 20.2%, accounting for 30.5% of the total metal processing machine tool exports in the same period; over the same period, it exported 522,000 units to the United States, ASEAN, and Russia respectively. There were 321,000 units and 251,000 units, up 16.4%, 38.6%, and 25.3%, respectively; the exports to Brazil and India were 251,000 and 191,000, respectively, which surged 1.3 times and 1.2 times respectively.

(4) Exports still use low-end products such as sawing machines and grinders, and the average export prices of most major export products have fallen. In the first 11 months of 2010, the export of metal processing machine tools in the Shanghai Customs District was still dominated by low-end varieties with relatively low added value. Among them, 1.674 million sets of grinders were exported, an increase of 35.9%, and 823,000 were exported from sawing machines or cutting machines, an increase of 16.6%. In the top 10 export commodities (according to the statistics of HS6 commodity codes), the average export prices of the 8 categories of commodities have declined to varying degrees. Among them, the average export prices of grinders, sawing machines or cutting machines were US$16.6 and US$70.8 per unit, respectively, down 2.8% and 2.9% respectively.

Second, the issue of concern and related recommendations China has been the largest market for machine tools for eight consecutive years, and in 2009 became the world's largest machine tool manufacturing country, but China's machine tool industry to achieve sustained growth, there are still the following problems:

One is that ECFA may have an impact on some machine tool sub-sectors. The Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) came into effect on September 12. In terms of the machine tool industry, the mainland has promised to reduce tariffs by 10% to import 107 Taiwanese machinery products, including CNC horizontal lathes, CNC drilling machines, and CNC surface grinders. Grinding machine tools, grinding machines, polishing machine tools and so on. The mainland is the main exporter of Taiwan's machine tools, and Taiwan's machine tools have strong market competitiveness. Mainland-related machine tool companies, especially mid-range, small and medium-sized CNC machine tools and major functional components will face greater market competition pressure.

The second is that the structure of machine tool export products still has no significant improvement. Since 2010, the export of metal processing machine tools has shown a linear upward trend. However, due to the growth of exporting CNC machine tools, the economy is mainly based on low cost. Take the above customs district as an example. Under the background of rapid rise in raw material prices, the average export price of major metalworking machine tools also fell compared with the same period of last year. The average export unit price was only US$200 per unit, far lower than the import of US$81,000 per unit during the same period. average price. Low-end products have excess capacity, high-end products mainly depend on imports, and the ability for independent innovation is not strong. The development of high-performance CNC systems and functional components lags behind the mainframe and becomes a bottleneck restricting the development of the CNC machine tool industry. Affected by this, the metal processing machine tools in the Shanghai Customs District still showed a trade deficit pattern, and the deficit scale increased by 68.1% over the same period of last year to reach US$1.37 billion.