Three phenomena worth paying attention to in stone export and customs suggestions

The first is that "high yield is not a good harvest." China's stone reserves rank first in the world, and the production and processing capacity, total export volume and total amount in the stone market have leapt to the top in the world, but China has created the world's first stone export amount by three times the number of Italian exports. This is due to the fact that, on the one hand, China's stone industry has a low level of technology and the overall product quality is low; on the other hand, the general scale of enterprises is too small and the homogeneity of products is serious. Enterprises can only compete with each other by lowering prices. In recent years, the growth rate of stone export in China is far less than the growth rate of exports.

The second is "more without specialization." Due to the low barriers to entry for mining companies, the current number of companies in the stone industry is large but small in scale, and for a long time there has been insufficient investment in mining, and the level of mining methods and technical equipment is not high, resulting in the current scale, technical level, and distribution of stone companies. Soil, scattered and chaotic. Without a highly uniform corporate structure, the degree of intensification of production is low. The direct consequence of this is the lack of core competitiveness of the entire industry and the lack of efficiency in growth.

The third is "big but not strong." Although China is a large country in stone production, but it is a small brand, the entire stone industry in the international lack of a well-known brand. On the whole, China's stone industry is still in its infancy. Most companies neglect the improvement of their own product value and the shaping of their brands. They also produce a large area of ​​“road cargoes” and have insufficient investment in technology, quality, and service competition. The low added value has a wide gap with foreign products of the same type.

This year, the state will once again adjust its export tax rebates for stone products. At the end of last year, some stone products that adjusted export tax rebates will implement a new export tax rebate rate of 5% starting from July 1 this year, which is reduced by 8 percentage points. From the export of Fujian Province in the first half of the year, the export of stone products involving reduction of export tax rebates was 251.9%, an increase of 91.9%, which accounted for 60.5% of the stone exports of Fujian Province in the same period and was affected by a wide range. It is imperative for the stone industry to promote industrial upgrading and increase internal competitiveness. To this end, Fujian Customs recommends:

First, the relevant departments should formulate new industry standards as soon as possible, improve the access threshold for export enterprises, and vigorously promote industrial upgrading, while supporting the encouragement of stone companies to take the sustainable development of joint ventures, industrialization, and specialization.

Second, the government should strengthen the unified planning and allocation of resources for quarries, rectify and sort out enterprises that disrupt the market order, and standardize and supervise the production and operation of the stone industry. We will formulate unified basic prices for stone blocks and finished materials, determine the rate of increase, prevent unfair competition in the industry, and eliminate disorderly and low-cost exports.

Thirdly, industry associations should timely track and respond to changes in the international market and price trends, give full play to the role of industry guidance services, and guide the healthy and stable development of the industry as a whole and avoid as many anti-dumping investigations as possible. Once investigated, relevant companies should be organized to actively respond to the complaints and strive for the best interests.

Fourthly, stone companies should follow the trend of national policies to adjust their reliance on price advantages, focus on deep-processing products such as stone carvings, increase their technological content and added value, create their own brands, and promote industrial upgrading.