As shown by the statistics data of the Customs, in January, Shandong Province exported 21.007 million new pneumatic tires (hereinafter referred to as “tires” ), with a decline (year-on-year, same below) of 3.9%; the export value was 4.92 Billion Yuan, with a growth of 7.5%; and the average export price was 234.4 Yuan/unit, with a growth of 11.9%.
Both the export volume and price had a slight link relative fall after rise. In December 2017, Shandong Province exported 23.795 million units of tires, which hit a new high, in this January, the export volume had a link relative decline of 11.7%. The average monthly export price continuously kept at high level from February to September 2017, started fluctuation to fall in October, and had a link relative fall of 1.4% in January 2018.
Analyzed from the type of the export tires, the export of PCR tire accounted for nearly 60% to be 57.4%, the volume was 12.052 million units, with a decline of 0.5%; the export volume of TBR tire was 4.931 million units, with a growth of 1.3%; the export volume of motorcycle tire was 2.269 million units, with a decline of 14.8%; and the export volume of the other agricultural and forestry tires was over 1.75 million units.
Analyzed from the export market in January, it basically had no change, the EU, America, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil and Saudi Arabia were major export markets and accounted for 51.1% of the export in total, in which, 5.244 million units of tires were exported to the EU, with a decline of 4.8%; and 1.762 million units of tires were exported to America, with a decline of 10.8%. America carried out “double anti” to the tires exported from China and the orders of Chinese tires reduced in America, which is a major reason for reduction in tire export. And the conditions of the export to the other countries were respectively: 1.308 million units of tires were exported to Nigeria, with a decline of 17%; 888,000 million units of tires were exported to Mexico, with a growth of 5.5%; 776,000 million units of tires were exported to Brazil, with a decline of 24.8%; and 765,000 million units of tires were exported to Saudi Arabia, with an increase of 1.4 times.
Analyzed from the export mode, it was mainly the mode of processing trade, but the export of general trade sharply increased, in which, the tires exported by the mode of processing trade were 13.542 million units, with a decline of 18.4%, accounting for 64.5% of the total export volume; and the tires exported by the mode of general trade were 7.291 million units, with a growth of 43.7%, accounting for 34.7%.
The experts analyzed and thought that the major reasons for reduction in volume and rise in price of tire export of Shandong Province in January were: firstly, the supply of the upstream raw and auxiliary materials partially tightened to promote reduction in volume and rise in price of tire export. The environmental regulation became stricter, which resulted in that a part of enterprises limited production and stopped production and upstream supply of domestic rubber agent, etc. constantly tightened to cause increase of production cost of the enterprises. In addition, some carbon black production enterprises still produced with coal tar purchased at high prices, thus the domestic carbon black supply had been still tense and the price had also been relatively stiffened by the end of 2017. Secondly, devaluation of USD and “double anti” measures of America had certain suppression on the export volume of the tires. Constant appreciation of the exchange rate of RMB to USD weakened the price competitiveness of domestic tires and had certain suppression on recent tire export.
