The WTO/TBT Center of the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision reported recently that the United States, the European Union and other countries and regions have proposed higher coverage of energy-saving and environmental protection, eco-design, energy efficiency labels, and test inspections for directional lights and LED lighting products in the country of entry. Strict requirements. Qu Shirong, director of the Guangdong Semiconductor Lighting Industry Co-Innovation Center, called on companies to improve the international quality of their products by adopting a global certification standards system to model and respond to global technological trade barriers. Technical barriers to trade have become the biggest obstacle to the export of LED lighting products in China.
Predicament: The cost of Guangdong LED companies may increase significantly. Europe and the United States, as the world's most important LED application base, adopts the technical barriers of high-required technology and safety standards, and is now facing LED export companies in Guangdong.
The WTO/TBT Center of the Guangdong Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau recently reported that EU, the United States, Chile, Uganda and other countries and regions have set higher thresholds for directional lights and LED lighting products in the country of entry. For the directional lamps and LED luminaire products of the country of entry, higher and more stringent requirements for energy-saving and environmental protection, eco-design, energy-efficiency labeling, test and inspection, performance, safety, size, weight, and shape are proposed. For example, the European Union put forward high energy efficiency requirements for directional lights and LED lights. The notified regulations require that only directional LED lamps and directional fluorescent lamps with an energy efficiency index of more than 0.2 can enter the EU market, 2.5 times more energy efficiency than before, which is 2.2 times that of China's national standards.
It has been estimated that in accordance with the above energy efficiency requirements, the production cost of LED lamps will directly increase by more than 20%, which will bring additional costs of more than RMB 2 billion to LED companies in Guangdong.
In addition to energy efficiency requirements, the requirements for conformity assessment and market supervision inspection procedures for directional lamps and LED luminaire products in the country of entry have become more and more demanding, which will bring huge test cost costs to companies.
Another example, the United States reported the LED lamp test program, according to preliminary estimates, an enterprise if required with the appropriate testing laboratories and testing equipment, you need to spend about 350,000 yuan, but also in the laboratory every year, equipment maintenance In addition, the cost of labor costs for laboratories is about RMB 100,000. There are more than 3,000 LED companies in Guangdong Province, and most of their products are exported to the United States. Only the LED test procedure notified by the United States will bring additional costs of more than 2 billion yuan to Guangdong LED export enterprises.
Recommendation: Modeling through the global certification system Guangdong Province is a major province of LED lamps and a major exporter. In 2011, the LED output value of Guangdong Province reached 150 billion yuan, accounting for 70% of the country and 50% of the world, and it is growing at a rate that doubles each year.
The United States and the European Union are the major exporting countries and regions of LED products in the province. In 2011, the export sales of LED lamps in Guangdong exceeded RMB 34 billion, which is more than 20% higher than that in 2010, accounting for almost one-fourth of the total output value of LED lamps in Guangdong. Among them, exports to the United States and the European Union amounted to about 22 billion yuan, accounting for about 2/3 of the export value of LED lamps in Guangdong, and accounting for 15% of the total output value of LED lamps in Guangdong.
How to crack the above technical trade barriers? The National Luminaire Quality Inspection Center (Guangdong) and representatives from Guangdong's 15 leading LED lighting companies recently held a seminar in Zhongshan. They believe that the coordination mechanism under the WTO/TBT agreement should be used to promote the adoption of comments from the Guangdong Province in Europe and the United States. opinion.
To this end, they have jointly reflected directly to Europe and the United States, requesting the United States to refer to the current practices of the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and other WTO member states, simplifying the requirements for the test environment and test methods, reducing the number of test samples and the number of tests, and shortening the number of tests. The length of time to ease the burden of product testing on LED lighting production companies, and avoid unnecessary trade barriers to foreign LED lighting products entering the US market. At the same time, the European side is required to appropriately reduce the minimum energy efficiency requirements for directional lamps and LED lamps, and postpone the implementation of this requirement by more than one year, so that enterprises can better adapt to the changes brought about by the regulations.
At the same time, they also proposed to increase the policy and financial support for the development of technical barriers to foreign trade, and in particular increase investment in research and development of LED core technologies.
Zhai Shirong called on companies to improve product quality at the same time, through the global certification standards system first modeling, strengthen the standardization of LED products, the international standards and foreign advanced standards into local standards in Guangdong Province, the construction of LED products with international standards The system enables the province's LED products to meet the technical requirements of the international market and respond to global technological trade barriers.
Predicament: The cost of Guangdong LED companies may increase significantly. Europe and the United States, as the world's most important LED application base, adopts the technical barriers of high-required technology and safety standards, and is now facing LED export companies in Guangdong.
The WTO/TBT Center of the Guangdong Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau recently reported that EU, the United States, Chile, Uganda and other countries and regions have set higher thresholds for directional lights and LED lighting products in the country of entry. For the directional lamps and LED luminaire products of the country of entry, higher and more stringent requirements for energy-saving and environmental protection, eco-design, energy-efficiency labeling, test and inspection, performance, safety, size, weight, and shape are proposed. For example, the European Union put forward high energy efficiency requirements for directional lights and LED lights. The notified regulations require that only directional LED lamps and directional fluorescent lamps with an energy efficiency index of more than 0.2 can enter the EU market, 2.5 times more energy efficiency than before, which is 2.2 times that of China's national standards.
It has been estimated that in accordance with the above energy efficiency requirements, the production cost of LED lamps will directly increase by more than 20%, which will bring additional costs of more than RMB 2 billion to LED companies in Guangdong.
In addition to energy efficiency requirements, the requirements for conformity assessment and market supervision inspection procedures for directional lamps and LED luminaire products in the country of entry have become more and more demanding, which will bring huge test cost costs to companies.
Another example, the United States reported the LED lamp test program, according to preliminary estimates, an enterprise if required with the appropriate testing laboratories and testing equipment, you need to spend about 350,000 yuan, but also in the laboratory every year, equipment maintenance In addition, the cost of labor costs for laboratories is about RMB 100,000. There are more than 3,000 LED companies in Guangdong Province, and most of their products are exported to the United States. Only the LED test procedure notified by the United States will bring additional costs of more than 2 billion yuan to Guangdong LED export enterprises.
Recommendation: Modeling through the global certification system Guangdong Province is a major province of LED lamps and a major exporter. In 2011, the LED output value of Guangdong Province reached 150 billion yuan, accounting for 70% of the country and 50% of the world, and it is growing at a rate that doubles each year.
The United States and the European Union are the major exporting countries and regions of LED products in the province. In 2011, the export sales of LED lamps in Guangdong exceeded RMB 34 billion, which is more than 20% higher than that in 2010, accounting for almost one-fourth of the total output value of LED lamps in Guangdong. Among them, exports to the United States and the European Union amounted to about 22 billion yuan, accounting for about 2/3 of the export value of LED lamps in Guangdong, and accounting for 15% of the total output value of LED lamps in Guangdong.
How to crack the above technical trade barriers? The National Luminaire Quality Inspection Center (Guangdong) and representatives from Guangdong's 15 leading LED lighting companies recently held a seminar in Zhongshan. They believe that the coordination mechanism under the WTO/TBT agreement should be used to promote the adoption of comments from the Guangdong Province in Europe and the United States. opinion.
To this end, they have jointly reflected directly to Europe and the United States, requesting the United States to refer to the current practices of the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and other WTO member states, simplifying the requirements for the test environment and test methods, reducing the number of test samples and the number of tests, and shortening the number of tests. The length of time to ease the burden of product testing on LED lighting production companies, and avoid unnecessary trade barriers to foreign LED lighting products entering the US market. At the same time, the European side is required to appropriately reduce the minimum energy efficiency requirements for directional lamps and LED lamps, and postpone the implementation of this requirement by more than one year, so that enterprises can better adapt to the changes brought about by the regulations.
At the same time, they also proposed to increase the policy and financial support for the development of technical barriers to foreign trade, and in particular increase investment in research and development of LED core technologies.
Zhai Shirong called on companies to improve product quality at the same time, through the global certification standards system first modeling, strengthen the standardization of LED products, the international standards and foreign advanced standards into local standards in Guangdong Province, the construction of LED products with international standards The system enables the province's LED products to meet the technical requirements of the international market and respond to global technological trade barriers.
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