China's narrow goods firms eye Turkey
24/06/2008 12:00
Some 60 Chinese brands sought opportunities to branch out to the
The sale of Chinese goods will decline due to anti-dumping regulations in the EU and the U.S., therefore the companies are expected to orient toward new markets through Turkey, said Yavuz Onay, chairman of the Turkish-Chinese Business Council. The sector is facing tough times due to increasing iron, steel and oil prices, said Özhan Erem, managing director of Media Force.
Mandatory transformation:
“Anti-dumping implementations targeting goods below quality standards will decrease the volume of Chinese exports for a while,” he said. “At the end of this process, which I expect will last about a year, Chinese firms will increase their quality standards for this market while providing their existing low-cost products to
Within the scope of the Customs Union, Turkish companies are imposing dumping pressure on the government for Chinese goods, Onay noted. “Just like in the past, dumping implementations will not serve as a solution now. Chinese domination of the market can be broken only through cutting costs of domestic goods.”
Seeking partners:
China-based Ningbo Universal Tools, which has an annual export volume of $800 million, aims to open out to the
San Du Machinery is also facing a bottleneck in terms of exports to the West, said Mary Wan, from the Chinese firm's export department. The company has oriented toward third-world countries, Wan added. “Should we manage to find a proper partner in
* Worldwide market is predicted to be over $10 billion in volume
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* The annual market volume in
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* Aggregate export volume is expected to approximate $400 million
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Source: www.turkishdailynews.com.tr
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