Adhesive was explosive growth in imports

In recent years, the adhesive general trade showed an explosive growth in imports, and is likely to become China's major natural rubber imports manner. This is a reporter last week at the 2008 China Development Forum on the rubber market learned.

Natural rubber adhesive is the content of 95% -99.5%, and add a small amount of stearic acid, styrene butadiene rubber, butadiene rubber, isoamyl rubber, zinc oxide, silica or plastic agent solution, mixing together the complex Rubber. According to Sinochem International (Holdings) Co., Ltd. general manager of domestic natural rubber Zhanjun, in 2002 China's general trade import volume of adhesive only 37,000 tons in 2007 has reached 482,000 tons with an average annual growth rate as high as 76.2 %. According to statistics, the ratio of imports of natural rubber adhesive cent in 2002 from the rapid rise 3.7 percent to 22.6 percent in 2007.

According to industry analysis, imports of natural rubber in the adhesive in the proportion of the rapid increase was mainly due to high tariffs on imports of natural rubber. It is understood that the natural rubber in 2007 before the general trade tariffs as high as 20% in 2007 after the introduction of choice rate of 20% ad valorem duty and 2600 yuan / ton in the two specific duty from low-tariff taxation. However, the import prices of natural rubber in recent years, the adjusted tariff of 10% -20%, remains high. In the margins are not high, and natural rubber prices to 24,000 yuan / ton, tire companies account for the cost of raw materials, the proportion of the total cost of production has increased from 50% to 70%, and some are close to 80%. The adhesive of imports from ASEAN, to pay only 5% of the tariffs, in the bonded area will be processed into natural rubber adhesive and then import tariffs of 8%. Therefore, the increase in imports of adhesive at the same time, so as to the form of general trade import volume of natural rubber has been little in 2004 after more from about 300,000 tons down to 150,000 tons below.

At the same time, with self-adhesive norms, no definition, no standards, no testing has become history. It is understood that the adhesive previously imported, often as a result of adhesive clear concept, the classification of the Customs and Excise refused to be unknown. In 2006, the Chinese Rubber Industry Association to develop the rubber compound after the introduction of self-regulation norms, the definition of adhesive, product specifications, testing methods, inspection rules, packaging, labeling and other issues have a clear answer, the adhesive has been enterprise Widely accepted.

Rubber industry is currently active as soon as possible for the adhesive industry standards and national standards. At the same time in the recent Association of Rubber Marketing adhesive integrity to carry out the recognition, credibility and the gradual establishment of mechanisms to further improve the adhesive scattered import channels.