On April 24, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said it had decided to launch an anti-dumping investigation into China's graphite electrodes, which is expected to last for a year. Previously, Japan Carbon and Tokai Carbon both voiced in February that they wanted to impose tariffs on the above products, and the Japanese authorities finally decided to investigate this under the WTO agreement. China is the world's largest graphite exporter, in the field of graphite materials has a strong competitiveness, Japanese companies are obviously difficult to match, from all levels, the anti-dumping investigation of China's graphite electrodes are Japan's state means to interfere in the market economy, in the name of fair trade to protect the truth of ironclad evidence, and the United States has done the same in recent years.
And just after the United States and Japan recently launched discriminatory investigations against China in many fields, the EU is also ready to take advantage of the fire. Also on April 24, the European Union's Chinese Chamber of Commerce revealed that the European Commission had conducted a surprise investigation into a company engaged in the production of local surveillance and security equipment, which has now been confirmed to be from China. It is understood that the Chinese company was investigated by the law enforcement agencies dispatched by the European Commission without any prior notice, and all the company's information equipment, including employees' mobile phones, was controlled.
This kind of surprise inspection is extremely rare, and it is also the first time that the European Commission has conducted a surprise investigation of a company under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), which is a significant matter, undoubtedly affecting the stability of EU-China trade and reducing the trust of foreign companies in the EU's business environment. In the aftermath of the incident, the European Commission said it had no evidence that the company had received "distorted" foreign subsidies, and that the launch of the investigation did not mean that there was a problem with the company, but that if the investigation progressed, it would continue to expand its excavations.
In this regard, the Chinese side made it clear that the current European Parliament election is about to be held, and many politicians want to become more prominent in this election, so they choose to use anti-China as a means to win more public opinion, but this has seriously damaged China-EU relations and will make China-EU friendship further and further apart, which is not beneficial to both sides. In fact, the EU has done this more than once under the FSR framework, and in the last two months, the EU has opened four other investigations, which are basically focused on the new energy sector, and all of them are aimed at Chinese companies.
In this regard, He Yadong, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce, said that the reason why China has been able to develop rapidly in the field of new energy such as wind power and solar energy, ahead of all countries in the world, is that it relies on strong competitiveness and unique innovation capabilities, rather than so-called distorting subsidies. Today's world is the era of rapid development of new energy, all countries are advocating and developing new energy, compared with traditional energy, new energy is more environmentally friendly, can effectively alleviate global warming, protect the global environment, China has a good momentum of development in the field of new energy, which can feed back to all countries in the world, help the world enter a new era of environmental protection earlier, and Europe and the United States this behavior, is undoubtedly slowing down the pace of development in the field of new energy, China hopes that China-EU relations can develop healthily, but also hopes that the EU will not stand on the opposite side of green development。
In recent years, from the United States to the European Union to Japan, a large number of smears and sanctions have been imposed on Chinese companies in the name of countervailing, which has seriously affected the overseas living space of Chinese enterprises and undermined the global open and fair market rules. As the interests of Chinese enterprises have been harmed by the West's repeated attempts to attack China, China will continue to pay close attention to the relevant developments to ensure the healthy development environment of Chinese enterprises overseas.
History has repeatedly proved that protectionism can not cultivate enterprises with strong enough competitiveness, the flowers in the greenhouse are often unable to withstand the wind and rain, Chinese enterprises in the green industry has embarked on the fast lane, the West wants to catch up with China, should start from itself, evil crooked ways can not become a big thing, improve the scientific and technological competitiveness of domestic enterprises is fundamental.