"Adhesive" poor tax loopholes drilled into the domestic rubber producers is inevitable quality problems

Reporters on July 24 from the departments concerned that, from 1 to May this year, China's imports of rubber composite surged 70.1 percent year-on-year. This is part of the business in the import of natural rubber in the incorporation of non-essential add a small amount of material, made of natural rubber content of 95% to 99% of the rubber compound to avoid the import of natural rubber caused by high tariffs. This will not only lead the country through high tariffs to protect domestic natural rubber industry policy in name only, returned to the lower reaches of rubber laid the quality of the production problems.
Customs data show that 1 in May this year, China imported 600,000 tons of natural rubber, up 12.1 percent. The adhesive import 148,000 tons more than last year's 70.1 percent increase over the same period, the value of 270,000,000 U.S. dollars, an increase of 1.2 times. Its import growth is far faster than other rubber products.
It is understood that the accession to the WTO, to protect our fragile natural rubber industry, the abolition of China's imports of natural rubber in-quota tariff by 12% levy policy, natural rubber to adjust tariffs to 20%. By contrast, while adding some of the additives of the rubber compound was only 8% tariff. If the import country of origin belonging to the ASEAN 6, this year's agreement tariff rates are as low as 5%. That is why, since 2002, imports of a number of domestic enterprises will have started drilling the different rubber products take advantage of the poor import duties. Many companies use their trade in Southeast Asia or the company's co-operation, local organizations in the supply of natural rubber, and then blended with a small amount of other ingredients on the spot, and exports to China to make huge profits.
Imports a large number of adhesive rubber domestic market has dealt a blow. First, the domestic natural rubber production enterprises suffered losses, some of the significant increase in business inventories, economic decline. In addition, due to the adhesive and the active ingredient content is not uniform, to the lower reaches of rubber tires user has led to great distress to the product of serious quality problems.
It is reported that in February this year, China Rubber Industry Association issued a "composite rubber self-regulate," adhesive on the definition of standards and norms in the testing rules with a view to gradually standardize the adhesive processing and trade. However, customs data showed that as natural rubber in the high tariffs developed under a 'special products', in the adhesive for some time to come will continue to be the fastest-growing imports of rubber products. To this end, the industry was of the opinion that the state should further improve the commodity classification rules, or simply to reduce natural rubber import tariff, block caused by poor tax loopholes.