Recently, many enterprises in the canning industry urgently appealed: in the case of high tinplate prices, in order to survive and ensure the supply of downstream industries, metal packaging products must be appropriately raised prices.
The metal committee of the association in the recent times held the meeting of barrel, tank, cover backbone enterprise, under the premise of the review cost, to maintain survival for the principle of small profit, decided to make can product average price increase 10%~15%, but the price increase range is far lower than the price increase range of 48% of tinplate.
Take crown bottle cap for example, in the past under the circumstance of disorderly competition, some enterprises grab the market with the price under the cost.Now, after repeated studies, the minimum price per crown cap has been raised from an average price of 3 cents to 3.4 percent, an increase of only 13.3 percent, and the quality must be guaranteed.In addition, the cold-rolled sheet (1.0mm~1.2mm thickness) used for 200-litre steel drums has increased by 81% from 3,200 yuan per ton in March 2003 to 5,800 yuan per ton, and the steel drum industry is convening a meeting of key enterprises to discuss a moderate price increase.
The cost of joint effect tank enterprises has increased sharply
Domestic tinplate in China's total iron and steel production accounted for a very small proportion.It is understood that Baosteel's annual output is 400,000 tons, and the joint venture's annual supply is 800,000 tons.Because our country market demand is exuberant, the domestic tinplate price rises, led to the foreign production enterprise to follow the trend and move.
The fluctuation of raw material price in can industry has a direct impact on the development of downstream enterprises, especially on the deep processing of agricultural and sideline products.Haikou Coconut Group, a leading enterprise in the deep processing of tropical agricultural and sideline products, ranks second in the total industrial output value of Hainan province, with an annual output value of 1.8 billion yuan.Their raw materials are all agricultural and sideline products, because of the price increase of tinplate, packaging costs, has directly affected the price of products, and will affect the interests of consumers.Another example: COFCO, Lulu Group, Shanghai Meilin Group, Beijing Aoruijin Group and Fujian Lianjian Group are all enterprises that undertake packaging tasks for agricultural and sideline products. They are all affected by the price rise of raw materials to varying degrees.
Reporters from China Canning Industry Association to understand that the tinplate industry price reaction is strong.If calculated on tinplate average price of 1300 yuan per ton, annual national canned industry will pay the cost of 4.5 ~ 520 million yuan, in the canned products price under the condition of hard to rise up for various reasons, the equivalent of canned industry in China cost 4.5 ~ 520 million yuan a year, this for canned industry in a state of small profit is undoubtedly a blow.
Coordinated development of iron and steel enterprises should pay attention to the voice of the downstream
Zhai Zhirong said that according to the industry association has the function of price self-discipline, the association has recently held several coordination meetings for backbone enterprises of barrels, cans and caps, hoping that steel enterprises will pay attention to the voice of the downstream industry.
In the past, the state-owned enterprises represented by baosteel and wusteel and the Sino-foreign joint ventures that import the original plate and process the tinplating at home are competitors, but now they have a united front - tinplate fraternity, which has the suspicion of monopoly.
According to the statistics of relevant trade associations, China's consumption of tinplate last year was about 1.42 million tons.Baosteel, Wuhan Iron and Steel and domestic tinplate processing plant total output is a little more than 1 million tons, the gap of 400,000 tons must be imported.In particular, some high-end brand products must use imported iron, some products of multinational companies, also designated with imported iron.If domestic prices remain high and imports are restricted, multinational companies and domestic brands may find alternative packaging to resist price increases.
How to deal with the current difficulties, Zhai Zhirong expressed hope that the government to coordinate, so that the price of tin return to a normal and reasonable price, with a small profit but quick turnover for the purpose.
Recently, the metal can industry's main raw material tinplate prices continue to climb.Reporters from China can packaging technology association metal committee learned that tinplate accounted for 70% of the cost of metal container production, which shows that the price fluctuation of tinplate directly determines the cost of metal container industry, and even to a certain extent related to the survival of the industry.
The market suddenly changed from a buyer's market to a seller's market
Zhai Zhirong told reporters that in order to safeguard the interests of enterprises, the association had submitted relevant materials to the former State Economic and Trade Commission and the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation for seven times, and attended hearings and several price coordination meetings.Because the appeal reason is sufficient, causes the competent department to take seriously.According to the investigation of industry injury investigation by former state economic and trade commission, the import of tinplate showed a continuous declining trend from 1997 to 2000.The former national economic and trade commission officially declared tinplate and anti-dumping without causal relationship.The canning industry breathed a sigh of relief after the ruling, but was surprised: after the removal of the high tariff, the price of tinplate did not fall back, but continued to rise, leaving the canning industry confused.
Take the base price of No. 25 tin layer with a thickness of 0.20mm as an example. Before the implementation of anti-dumping provisional protection measures, the market price averaged RMB5,300 per ton, but rose to RMB6,400 by the end of 2000, an increase of 20.76%.By February last year, it had risen to around 6,800 yuan, and it has climbed all the way to 8,000 yuan a ton today.Current, association of technology of Chinese iron can package receives enterprise to reflect ceaselessly, tinplate still is raising price.
According to Zhai Zhirong, the soaring price of tinplate has caused fatal damage to China's metal packaging industry.According to relevant estimates, the price increase of the tinplate will increase the purchasing cost of China's metal packaging industry by 2 billion yuan every year, and the new cost is difficult to transfer to the downstream enterprises, resulting in a total loss of the metal packaging industry.
It is understood that some enterprises with tinplate as the main raw material have to reduce production, do more thanks to less do less loss, not to do, some enterprises appear to stop production.This situation makes China's tin buyer's market for many years to change into a seller's market, the reason is not market regulation but artificial.
Prices are up 48% in a year
Zhai Zhirong, secretary general of the metal committee of China can packaging technology association, told reporters that the price of tinplate rose sharply from January this year, and the price per ton has exceeded 8,000 yuan at present.
Zhai Zhirong said that the price increase for tinplate originated in 2002.On March 20, 2002, the United States began to implement Section 201 on the grounds that the export of steel products from China, the European Union, Japan, South Korea and other countries had seriously damaged the American steel industry, and imposed additional taxes on different types of steel products from these countries, thus causing turmoil in the global steel market.In order to avoid the threat of damage to the domestic steel industry, the Chinese government began to implement temporary safeguard measures for steel since May 24, 2002. The products that enter the safeguard measures include tinplate (commonly known as tinplate) and cold-rolled sheet that are closely related to the metal canning industry.The implementation of the protective measures triggered the price rise of tinplate, from May 2002 to April this year the cumulative increase of 48 percent.
At the same time, foreign tinplate prices follow the rise.Foreign suppliers take measures to reduce the quantity and keep the price, so that domestic can manufacturers can not achieve the purpose of reducing the price through foreign procurement.
Adding insult to injury can enterprise profits bottom
According to Zhai Zhirong, there are more than 30 large enterprises in China's canning industry, and their tin consumption accounts for 1/3 of the total consumption of the whole industry.These large enterprise ship is difficult to turn around, the original gross profit is only 5%~10%, because the price of tinplate climbing, has led to a comprehensive loss facing closure.Concerned public figure helplessly tells a reporter: tinplate price rises ceaselessly, lets already meagre income is even worse, now tinplate not only rises in price, and must pay cash when buying, caused huge pressure to the enterprise.