關于共同維護國際鋼鐵貿易秩序的聲明

近期，美歐9家鋼鐵協會發表聯合聲明，稱全球鋼鐵行業正遭受產能過剩危機，中國鋼鐵行業是這一問題的主要影響者，并對2016年12月中國自動獲得市場經濟國家地位表示反對。

中國鋼鐵工業協會對此深感震驚，并聲明如下：

一、中國鋼鐵工業協會完全不認同美歐9家鋼鐵協會的做法和看法。中國鋼鐵產業作為貿易保護主義的受害者反對借鋼鐵貿易否認中國的市場經濟地位的做法，認為這已經超出了行業組織工作范圍，超出了鋼鐵貿易糾紛范疇，無視全球鋼鐵市場已進入充分競爭時期。在當前全球鋼鐵產業面臨困難的情況下，美歐9家鋼鐵協會事先未與中方作任何溝通就發表內容草率的聲明，絲毫無助于問題的解決。

二、產能過剩是全球鋼鐵行業在產業結構調整中面臨的共同問題，需要全球鋼鐵產業共同努力。簡單地把本國或本地區鋼鐵產業的困難歸結于中國企業的說法是不負責任的，對解決本國或本地區鋼鐵產業困難，促進全球鋼鐵產業良好發展沒有任何幫助。

三、中國政府、行業、企業近年來積極采取有效措施，致力于化解過剩鋼鐵產能，所付出的努力和取得的成效有目共睹。2011年以來，中國積極淘汰落后產能，加強節能環保，已經削減粗鋼產能7780萬噸，今后還要以更大的力度削減產能。同時，中國鋼鐵企業根據市場需求積極主動減產，今年1-10月全國粗鋼產量同比下降2.23%，已經減產1500多萬噸。必須承認，化解過剩鋼鐵產能是一個較長的過程，歐美等國上世紀七十年代曾用了十幾年時間化解過剩產能，中國化解過剩產能也將需要一定的時間，中國企業將借鑒歐美等國的成功做法，并努力加快化解過剩產能的進程。

四、經濟全球化已經將世界各國的鋼鐵產業聯系在一起，中國沒有鼓勵鋼鐵產品出口，中國鋼鐵企業是在市場充分競爭的條件下進行生產和銷售的。我們已經注意到今年中國鋼材出口增長對有些國家和地區帶來的影響，力求改觀，但不能否認主要是市場的作用和競爭力因素，中國的鋼鐵產品在進口地是受歡迎的，為眾多的消費者帶來了利益。

五、對于鋼鐵貿易中出現的問題，中國鋼鐵工業協會和企業一直高度重視。一方面積極加強行業自律，進一步規范出口秩序;另一方面通過積極溝通、磋商對話，以及交流合作等方式謀求有效解決，并已經取得較好的效果。我們希望全球鋼鐵業界進一步增進交流溝通，增進相互了解，加強合作，共同維護國際鋼鐵貿易秩序，促進全球鋼鐵產業的良好發展。

November 25, 2015

CISA’S STATEMENT ON JOINTLY SAFEGUARDING INTERNATIONAL STEEL TRADE ORDER

Recently, nine steel associations from America and Europe released a joint statement, claiming that “the global steel industry is currently suffering from a crisis of overcapacity and the Chinese steel industry is the predominant global contributor to this problem”, and expressing their opposition to China’s market economy treatment which will be automatically accorded in December 2016.

China Iron and Steel Association is astonished to hear about it and hereby makes the statement as follows:

1. China Iron and Steel Association totally disagrees to the practice and viewpoints of the nine steel associations from America and Europe. Chinese steel industry, as a victim of trade protectionism, opposes to using the excuse of steel trade to deny China’s market economy status. We think such behaviour is beyond the scope of industry association’s work and steel trade conflicts, as well as regardless of the fact that the global steel market has entered into a fully competitive period. In the scenario of serious difficulties facing the global steel industry, the nine steel associations, without any prior communications with China, released the perfunctory statement, which isn’t helpful to finding solutions at all.

2. Overcapacity is a common issue in the global steel industry restructuring, which requires the concerted efforts of all the parties in the global steel industry. To simply attribute the difficulties in one country or region to the Chinese enterprises is not responsible, nor is beneficial for solving the industry difficulties in their own country or region and promoting the smooth development of the global steel industry.

3. In the last few years, the Chinese government, steel industry and enterprises have taken effective measures to resolve overcapacity. The efforts they have made and the results they have achieved can be seen by everyone. Since 2011, China has actively eliminated obsolete capacities, and reinforced energy saving and environmental protection. 77.8 million tons of crude steel capacities have been eliminated and more efforts will be made to reduce capacities. At the same time, Chinese steel mills have actively cut their production in accordance with the market demand. From January to October 2015, Chinese crude steel output has declined by 2.23% y-o-y, a reduction of more than 15 million tons. It must be admitted that resolving overcapacity is a long-term process. The US and European countries spent more than one decade in resolving overcapacity in the 1970s and China will take a certain period of time to do so as well. Chinese steel mills will learn the successful practices and experience from their counterparts in the US and European countries, to accelerate the process of resolving overcapacity.

4. The economic globalization has integrated the steel industries of different countries in the world. China does not encourage steel exports and Chinese steel mills produce and sell their products in the fully competitive market. We have noted that the increasing Chinese steel exports this year have brought about some impacts on some countries and regions, and we have tried to make some adjustments. However, it can not be denied that the increasing exports are mainly due to the market forces and competitiveness and Chinese steel products are popular in the export destinations, bringing about benefits for many consumers.

5. China Iron and Steel Association and Chinese steel mills always give high priority to the issues arising from steel trade. On the one hand, we actively strengthen industry self-regulation and further regulate the export order; on the other hand, we seek proper solutions through ways of communications, dialogues, negotiations, exchanges and cooperation, etc., which have achieved better results. We hope the global steel industries could further enhance communications and exchanges, reinforce mutual understanding and cooperation in order to jointly safeguard the international steel trade order and promote the smooth development of the world steel industry.