Stories behind Olympic Guangzhou 1000 Footwear DMF commands affected by tanneries

2009-09-16

The European Union in May this year, implemented a new DMF directive, the directive prohibiting been identified as "contains Dimethyl Fumarate" products into the EU market circulation and sales, however, less than two months to implement, there are already many companies are affected .

   Experts point out that the green trade barriers, after the exchange rate has become the second major factor affecting foreign trade, green trade barriers also aggravated the pollution of products and the transfer of polluting industries to China.

   In recent years, the EU RoHS Directive, WEEE Directive, EUP directive and REACH regulation measures such as green trade (TBT) has introduced and implemented, which is already in financial turmoil for the invasion of China-related export industries had a tremendous impact. More recently, the EU has implemented a new DMF instructions.

   China WTO / TBT notification Guangzhou Information Center Dr. Chen Xiaoli 14, Administrative Service Center in Guangzhou, "organized by EU regulations series of notes will" to interpret Road, DMF refers to dimethyl fumarate chemicals, mainly for moisture mildew, often made footwear, leather furniture and home textiles of the moisture-proof bag.

Primarily affects footwear, leather industry

   DMF and the EU Directive provides that where a consumer products or their components in the content of dimethyl fumarate than 0.1mg/kg, or to declare itself the content of dimethyl fumarate, it was considered "contained dimethyl fumarate "products, prohibited from entering the EU market.

   "0.1 The content of particularly low, in fact, is equivalent to not be used, as long as the use of DMF, will surely be exceeded," Chen Xiaoli recommends that companies immediate replacement of the moisture mildew, use more environmentally friendly product substitution.
Enterprises greatly influenced by the EU directive, in July of this year, Guangzhou Fangcun a production of packaging materials enterprises since the use of the DMF, which were all returned redone.

   Chen Xiaoli pointed out, DMF mainly affects footwear, leather furniture, home textiles business, for the greater impact in Guangzhou, Huadu alone there are nearly a thousand leather manufacturers, and the leather package boxes and other products is the raw material.
"We are very concerned about the REACH legislation, had come mainly to see the cost, how much impact the supply chain," shows will be just ended, doing household products trade, Mr. Ban told reporters, in fact, the company an early focus on the EU???s various entry instructions were prepared, and thus not subject to the impact of the green barriers.

Millions of dollars in losses due to barriers

   At present, the green trade barriers not only affect the export market for our products, triggering trade frictions, but also aggravated the pollution of products and the transfer of polluting industries to China.

   According to the Ministry of Commerce statistics, foreign investment in pollution-intensive industries and industrial output value accounted for more than half of its total investment (51.9%), "Description of foreign investment in pollution-intensive industries are an important industry," Chen Xiaoli pointed out that these industries include leather , fur, down and related products; electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing; thermal power; textile printing and dyeing; food brewing industry and so on.

   Guangzhou-based export-oriented economy, the EU market is the main export areas, Guangzhou City, Guangzhou exports to the EU in 2008 amounted to 8.974 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 14.8%. At the same time, Guangzhou City, subject to the EU each year of green trade barriers as high as millions of dollars in trade losses.

   Chen Xiaoli, said Guangzhou???s foreign trade enterprises in the trade barriers encountered in 37% of the green barriers, green barriers, following the exchange rate has become the second largest after the barriers to trade. According to rough statistics, in the suffering of the green barriers, 66.1% from the European Union.