Wind power companies hold group to respond to "double reverse"

When China’s photovoltaic industry used a large amount of evidence to refute the US side’s unreasonable investigation of anti-dumping and countervailing (hereinafter referred to as “double counter”), the “dark hand” of the “double counter” investigation extended to China’s “new force” in the field of new energy. - Wind power industry. China's new energy industry exports have once again encountered recovery and blocking. In this regard, wind power companies have embraced the group and stated that they will respond actively.

“This is almost exactly the same as the seven US photovoltaic companies’ approach to the Chinese photovoltaic industry. The investigation of China’s photovoltaic industry has not yet settled, and the United States has also launched difficulties for China’s wind power products. Although from the perspective of production capacity, the economic losses caused to enterprises are not large, but from From tires to photovoltaics to wind power, there are indications that the United States’ investigation of Chinese products is becoming more and more normalized. On the 13th, Professor Wang Jian, an international business expert and professor at the School of International Economics and Trade of the University of International Business and Economics received an economic report. Said during the interview.

The involved companies actively responded to the announcement from the board of directors of Shanghai Taisheng Wind Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. on the 6th. At present, the company is actively preparing relevant responding plans. A few days ago, more than 10 domestic wind power companies such as Goldwind and Huarui Wind Power gathered in Beijing to jointly discuss the strategy for wind power to meet the US “double reverse”.

This happened on January 18. An organization named the American Wind Tower Alliance formally applied to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission for a "double reverse" merger investigation of imported wind tower products imported from China and Vietnam. And it seeks to levy more than 64.37% and more than 59% of the tariff. On February 11, the US International Trade Commission voted 5 votes to 0 to conclude that China's application of wind towers to the United States caused substantial damage to the US related industries.

The Wind Energy Equipment Branch of the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association immediately stated that “a special defense lawyer has been invited and is currently communicating with the United States.”

Difficulties in the new energy industry "The U.S. investigation method adopted by China's new energy industry is permitted by the WTO rules. U.S. companies are very good at using this method and have frequently tasted sweetness from it. Chinese companies can only respond passively." It said that since last August, the United States has conducted two consecutive “double counter” investigations on China’s new energy industry. “The United States itself wants to vigorously develop the new energy industry. Under the circumstance that the global economic situation is weakening, the prospects for new energy in the United States are also not optimistic. Therefore, 'turning anger' on Chinese companies is a common tactic and method.”

Zhao Jinzhuo Yang, member of the China Renewable Energy Society and director of the Industry Research Department of China Wind Energy magazine, told reporters that the United States has frequently been struggling with China's new energy industry. The main reason is that China’s new energy industry has a similar start time to developed countries and the technology gap is relatively high. Smaller, the United States tried to curb Chinese companies through trade protection, thereby gaining time and space for the development of its new energy industry.

For China's new energy companies, Zhao Jinzhuo believes that it may be a passive initiative to learn to protect their rights and interests on the premise of being legal. In addition, Chinese companies should realize that the long-term low-cost competition model has already had problems. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on product quality and high-tech research and development. This is not defeated.

Wang Jian believes that in the current focus of disputes, Chinese companies must ultimately achieve a favorable situation for themselves. If products can smoothly enter the US market, they must follow the American approach. For example, pressure can be exerted through political lobbying to clear up misunderstandings. "China's wind power industry is always going to the world. Now, since the battlefield has been moved to the United States, it should use the United States to solve the problem."

The fear of a chain reaction was weighed down by the price of components, especially the impact of the US “double reverse” investigation. The Chinese photovoltaic industry has not yet been able to completely emerge from the shadow of last year. Zhao Jinzhuo believes that the wind power industry suffers from “double opposition” and the impact is not significant in the short term. After all, the Chinese wind power industry’s market is focused on the mainland market.

Take Taisheng Wind Energy, a leading wind turbine product manufacturer, as an example. In the first half of the year, the company’s domestic market revenue was 2605.850 million yuan, and the foreign market revenue was only 55.1151 million yuan, which was about 2% of the first half of the operating income. Taisheng Wind Energy issued an announcement on January 6 that there was no order for wind turbine towers directly exported to the United States in the previous year, and the company did not have any major reliance on the US wind tower market. Therefore, this time the US “double reverse” case was applied to the company’s production. There is no significant impact on operations.

Shi Pengfei, deputy chairman of the Wind Energy Professional Committee of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society, said that wind turbine towers mainly play a supporting role in wind turbines, and their technical threshold is relatively low. Their influence is weak in the industry. The “double counter” investigations against wind turbines are not Will have a fundamental impact on China's wind power industry environment.

At the same time, the external dependence of China's wind power market is not strong. Therefore, even if wind power tower enterprises fail to respond to the “double counter”, they can quickly find the market to digest production capacity.

As a representative of a wind power component manufacturing company, Zhang Quanli, marketing manager of Shandong Sanli Electric Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., believes that wind towers are just a beginning. Afterwards, the US “double reverse” antenna will gradually extend to blades, motors and other components. Therefore, other wind power related component manufacturers should also strengthen their awareness of prevention.