Plastic machine industry appears the biggest unit price deficit in recent years

The reporter learned from the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association on April 11 that from January to February, China's plastics machinery industry recorded a unit price deficit of 10 times the average price of imports and exports in the past two years.

According to Su Dongping, the general secretary of the China Plastics Machinery Association, from January to February, China exported 861 countries and regions to 8,615 Taiwan's top 10 tax presses, including injection molding machines, plastic granulators, and plastic blow molding machines. 194.6689 million US dollars, compared with the same period last year, the number of exports and exports grew by 16%, respectively, 24%. However, in the same period, China imported a total of 1,714 taxation products for 10 tariff lines, the import amount was 334,301,300 US dollars, the import volume increased by 5%, the import amount increased by 33% year-on-year, and the trade deficit amounted to 13963.24 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 46%. %. From January to February, the average unit price of imported plastics industry in China was about 200,000 U.S. dollars per unit, and the average export price was only about 20,000 U.S. dollars per unit. Ten times the average unit price of imports and exports compared to the biggest gap in the past two years.

According to reports, China's current imports of presses are mainly from Japan, Germany, and Taiwan. The three countries account for 80% of total imports. Exports are mainly targeted at developing countries such as Brazil, Iran, India, Turkey, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand. Injection molding machine is the main product of the plastic machine industry, accounting for about half of the import and export volume of all presses. In recent years, the independent innovation capability of China's press industry has been enhanced, but the problem of having fewer brands with international competitiveness still exists. The middle-to-high end products have a large gap compared with the advanced level in foreign countries, mainly in terms of production efficiency, precision, miniaturization, large-scale and automatic control; the ability of scientific and technological innovation is not strong, the core technology and key technologies are less, self-development lack of ability. Most of the exported plastic products are OEM products, which are still at the low end of the value chain of the international industrial division of labor. The added value is not high, resulting in a large loss of profits.