The medical and healthcare products exhibition was held on May 1 and 5 on May 4, 2010, during the 121st session of the Canton fair. As in the summer of guangzhou, there is no reduction in the crowds. During the exhibition, medicine economic newspaper reporters from the Chinese medicine and health products import and export chamber of commerce (hereinafter referred to as "medicare" chamber of commerce), January 2017 - march, the pharmaceutical industry's overall exports rose 5.32% last year, compared to the export amount more than $13 billion, rose 2.37% year-on-year. 

 

As more and more drug companies go abroad, they face more and more trade disputes. Healthcare chamber of commerce hui when communicating with reporters admitted that in recent years, the world economy in the depth of the adjustment of a slow recovery, the international market demand remains weak, trade protectionism aggravate. The trade frictions encountered by the pharmaceutical industry in China are clearly rising. 

 

Price competition is stressful 

 

, in the first quarter of 2017, western medicine apis and medical device products still keep the advantage, accounting for about 50% and 30% respectively than that, the main products for export. 

 

Although the total exports of Chinese medicine, western medicine and medical devices have all increased, the performance of exports has been different. Of traditional Chinese medicine and medical equipment export amount compared with last year, was reduced by 8.73% and 2.90% respectively, while the western medicine products exports rose by 6.92%, to $8.1 billion, accounting for more than 60%. 

 

Among them, the western medicine apis year-on-year growth of 6.71%, the export amount and biochemical medicine products exports year-on-year growth of 4.55%, the overall share is still relatively small, only 4.71%. 

 

Healthcare chamber of commerce secretary about the mining analysis pointed out that at present our country medicine products export structure in optimization step by step, but exports to the structure of the industrial chain of low-end products in the short term will not change soon. From the export quantity and export analysis, China's drug companies are not reduced in the international market share, just price competition to the price fall in turnover was no obvious growth. "The downward pressure on exports of pharmaceutical products is due to the fact that excess capacity has led to fierce price competition, which has caused prices to fall significantly." 

 

The rise in trade friction is clear 

 

Competition from the same product market, not only for domestic companies, but also for the rise of emerging economies. Trade frictions have also increased. 

 

In 2016, my pharmaceutical products have been subject to 8 foreign trade remedy cases. In the first quarter this year, the health care deal with India, the United States and the European Union chamber of commerce of trade friction case 6 JianCi, saccharin, sanshui amoxicillin, efficient sweeteners, blood vessels, syringes, tartaric acid, and other products. 

 

It is understood that the trade friction between China and different countries is different. Trade friction between China and the United States is dominated by intellectual property disputes. And India, is China's second largest export market, at the same time, its development go on high-end international market more, with API of trade competition, India and China trade dispute mainly reflected in anti-dumping. In addition, Brazil and Mexico also have some antidumping trade frictions with China. In the case of the health care chamber, the impact of trade frictions on the general export of medicines is not large, only in the export of individual products. 

 

In the process of communication, hui said, facing the trade friction, there are three kinds of psychological need to overcome a lot of enterprise: one is the suit as a "legal", play this kind of "international case" there is fear, give up easily. In fact, antidumping and other trade remedy cases are mostly an administrative procedure, not a judicial proceeding. The second is that it is easy to fear. When companies understand abroad for a long time in the process of the anti-dumping case trial see China as "non-market economies", use the "country" and a series of unreasonable practices, think this kind of case is very difficult to win, and lose confidence. Three is some companies affected by the incorrect management thought, in the export business of "play a gun in one place", after its export products involved, not through vigorously protect the market, but it is such as to avoid negative. 

 

Respond positively to friction 

 

In the face of trade friction, zhou hui suggested that the drug companies should first be aware of the risks of friction and avoid the risks of trade friction. Trade friction cases presented, are generally not abrupt, collecting information from the prosecution to the filing of time is also very uncertain, enterprise management and sales in addition to should have the consciousness of quality, price, brand consciousness, competition consciousness, must also establish the legal consciousness, effectively avoid the risk of trade friction. For example, you can through the sell price surveillance products to build products sold in China and the contrast of export product price list, ensure that export prices is not lower than the target market within the country (condition) of the like product sales price, to avoid may suffer from the risk of anti-dumping. 

 

Second, companies should respond positively and quickly. Often trade frictions are very timely once they are filed and entered. Both government departments and the chamber of commerce actively organize enterprises carry out the work, or hire a lawyer to fill in the questionnaire work, enterprise itself is a tight schedule, a burdensome task. If no documents and questionnaires are submitted within the specified time period, the foreign trade investigation department will be deemed uncooperative and will be rejected. 

 

Finally, the lawyer should be hired in time to respond professionally. Investigations of trade friction case very professional, and a long course of legal proceedings, USES is against the law, a ruling is by suing the department in charge of the final decision, without a lawyer's professional guidance, responses to the enterprise is difficult to independently. For this reason, it is usually required to hire a professional lawyer. 

 

Facing the trade friction in the international market, the fair news spokesman, deputy director of the China foreign trade center Xu Bing also mentioned previously, the fair will invite the intellectual property law enforcement personnel and experts in trade disputes arbitration mediation will deal with complaints; Through the WeChat public number of the Canton fair and other platforms, we will enhance the publicity of education. 

 

And the health insurance chamber of commerce will play an important role in the professional and endorsement industries of industry intermediary organizations and actively assist the enterprises involved in dealing with the trade frictions. Providing a full process of case response support for the enterprise; Positive response of key case - which last year our country enterprise in the vitamin C antitrust case of appeal won, effectively avoided due to antitrust lawsuit abuse may lead to the threat of litigation related to export industry; We will also strengthen cooperation with local governments, companies involved in the case, and professional lawyers.